The Story and Idea of the Mother's Day !!

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”

The entire Arab world celebrates, on March 21st every year, Mother’s Day, and Mother’s Day 2021 may be the top of the search engines, but what is the story of this day?

The designation of a Mother's Day dates back to 1912, when Anna Jarvis, an American human rights activist, made several attempts to urge the American community to celebrate mothers.

And she stressed during her statement that the term mother's should be singular for all families in honor of their mothers and all mothers in the world.

Later, the US President Woodrow Wilson used this appellation in law as an official holiday in the United States.

“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.”

While the history of the celebration of Mother's Day in the Arab world went back to the writer Mustafa Amin, when he admired the American idea and began to advocate for it through a group of different articles.

Egypt is considered to be the first Arab country to celebrate Mother’s Day on March 21, where the celebration of Mother’s Day was in 1956, when a mother went to an Egyptian newspaper, especially the late journalist Mustafa Amin, in his office inside Akhbar al-Youm, telling her story and how she became a widow and had many young children. She raised them and did not marry, and she devoted her life to them until they grew up and graduated from the university and went separately to pursue their lives, leaving her alone. Here, Mustafa Amin wrote in the famous column "Fikra", and suggested setting aside a day for the mother, which would be like a day to give back to every mother.