ABSTRACT
T h e visitor to Cairo is greeted on his arrival, as he passes out of the station, by a statue on the Station Square called The Awakening of Egypt. On his departure from Cairo this statue remains his last impression. The Awakening of Egypt is typified by an Egyptian peasant woman, a tall, com manding figure, and a sphinx. The woman has her right arm on the headdress of the sphinx, the left holds back from her face the lifted veil; her eyes are fixed on the future. This statue is a powerful representation of Egypt in trans ition. It represents an ideal rather than a reality, since Egyptian women as a whole are not yet prepared for the role which the dominant figure in stone suggests. The process of preparation, however, is being effected through the education of Egyptian women, which had a belated beginning, but is now steadily moving forward.
