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Nafeesa Shayeq was an Afghan feminist. She belonged to the generation of pioneer women who attained public positions in Afghan society after the reforms of Mohammed Daoud Khan.

She was the first editor of Mirmon (i.e. woman) magazine of the Women's Welfare Association. She served as the Director Ceneral of Publicity and Promotion for that same Institute from 1976 to 1978, as well as Director of Women's Welfare at the Rural Development Center.

References

1. Afghanistan center news / Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation for the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University (ACKU). University of Arizona Libraries. 2009. doi:10.2458/azu_acku_serial_z845_a34_l68_v2_n1.

• M. Saed: Women in Afghanistan history
• Rahimi Fahima. ( 1977, with 1~ update of 1985 by Nancy Hatch Dupree), Women in Afghanistan /Frauen in Afghanistan, Kabul

• Afghan feminists
• 20th-century Afghan women politicians
• 20th-century Afghan politicians
• 20th-century Afghan women writers
• Afghan journalists