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Nawal El Saadawi | |
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نوال السعداوي | |
 Saadawi in 2008 | |
| Born | 22 October 1931 |
| Died | 21 March 2021 (aged 89) Cairo, Egypt |
| Other names | Nawal Zeinab el Sayed |
| Alma mater | Cairo University Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, psychiatrist, author |
| Notable work | Women and Sex (1969) Woman at Point Zero (1975) |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Sa'adāwī, 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the concerns of third-world women pertaining to sexuality, patriarchy, class, and colonialism.[1]
She was founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association[2][3] and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights.[4] She was awarded honorary degrees on three continents. In 2004, she won the North–South Prize from the Council of Europe. In 2005, she won the Inana International Prize in Belgium,[5] and in 2012, the International Peace Bureau awarded her the 2012 Seán MacBride Peace Prize.[6]
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:3was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Nawal El Saadawi". Women Inspiring Change. 2 March 2015. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ^ Hitchcock, Peter, Nawal el Saadawi, Sherif Hetata. "Living the Struggle". Transition 61 (1993): 170–179.
- ^ Nawal El Saadawi, "Presentation by Nawal El Saadawi: President's Forum, M/MLA Annual Convention, November 4, 1999", The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 33.3–34.1 (Autumn 2000 – Winter 2001): 34–39.
- ^ "PEN World Voices Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi", YouTube. 8 September 2009.
- ^ "International Peace Bureau". www.ipb.org. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.