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Sara Reguer

Sara Reguer (1943-2023) was professor and chair of the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College. She received her Ph.D. in Middle East history from Columbia University. She published in many fields, including Jews in the Middle East, women's history, and Jews in Italy. Her books included Winston S Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922, My Father's Journey, and Opinionated.

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Legal document concerning the illegitimate descendance of Abū Saʿd, son of al-Wuḥša

Wuhsha the Broker

Wuhsha the Broker lived in Egypt at the end of the eleventh century and into the twelfth. In a world where women were expected to be gainfully employed, Wuhsha was a prototype of the successful independent businesswoman, moving easily from the world of women into that of men.