Nawal El Saadawi ... Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Sa'adāwī, 27 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician.
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian public health physician, psychiatrist, author, advocate of women’s rights, and founder of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA). Her writings and her professional career as a physician and psychiatrist were dedicated to political and sexual rights for women.
So wrote Nawal El Saadawi, who has died at the age of 89, according to Egyptian media reports. The pioneering Egyptian doctor, feminist and writer spent decades sharing her own story and...
Nawal El Saadawi: Feminist firebrand who dared to write ... - BBC
Nawal El Saadawi, the rebel doctor who wrote the truth on prison toilet ...
After decades of fighting the patriarchy – enduring death threats, censorship, exile and imprisonment – Nawal El Saadawi died of natural causes in Cairo on March 21, outliving the two...
Nawal El Saadawi (Nawwal al-Sa'dawi) is a leading Egyptian feminist, a medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, an activist, and a militant writer on Arab women's oppression and their desire for self-expression.
Nawal El Saadawi gained international attention, acclaim, and death threats for her feminist writings and her lectures decrying discrimination against women. That demand for equal rights for women was shaped by her own experiences and her work as a doctor serving women in rural Egypt.
Nawal El Saadawi witnessed firsthand the discrimination she faced compared to her brothers, an experience that would later shape her writing and inform her advocacy for women’s rights.
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