Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi was born on 27 October 1931 in Kafr Tahla, the second of nine children. A doctor of medicine of Cairo University in 1955, she practised in the countryside, then headed a department of the Ministry of Health, from which she was removed in 1972 after the publication of a book on women and sexuality. Imprisoned in September 1981 under Sadat, she founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, closed by the authorities in 1991. Under threat, she taught in the United States from 1993 to 1996. She died in Cairo on 21 March 2021.

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• NovelThe Fall of the Imamسقوط الإمامNawal El Saadawi · 1987Literature