Nawal El Saadawi
نوال السعداوي
Writer
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Egypt
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Cairo,
Egypt
Influential Egyptian feminist writer, physician, and activist whose work on gender and Arab society made her one of the region's most controversial public intellectuals.
Nawal El Saadawi worked simultaneously as a physician and a writer, publishing dozens of books on gender, religion, and Arab society that made her both internationally celebrated and repeatedly targeted by Egyptian authorities across her lifetime.
Representation
Independent