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Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist

Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist

EGYPTIAN novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89. The author of more than 50 books, she told me in one of our many interviews, in 2007, that she self-identified as an African from Egypt, not from the Middle East … I am not from the third world. There is one world, that is a racist, capitalist economic world. I became a feminist when I was a child – when I started to ask questions to become aware that women are oppressed and feel discrimination. ADELE NEWSON-HORST, Morgan State…
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Feminists worldwide mourn Egyptian pioneer

Feminists worldwide mourn Egyptian pioneer

MENNA A FAROUK WRITERS, politicians and feminists united on Monday to pay tribute to pioneering Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi following her death aged 89, vowing her work would live on through the generations she inspired in the Middle East and beyond. In Egypt, supporters said they would commemorate her with an institute and a prize named after her, while popular actress Boshra Ahmed said she was looking for a production company to make a movie about the trailblazer's colourful life. Born in 1931, El Saadawi trained as a doctor after rejecting a child marriage. The author of more than…
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Nawal El Saadawi, pioneering Egyptian feminist, in her own words

Nawal El Saadawi, pioneering Egyptian feminist, in her own words

Feminists across the Middle East and beyond are mourning the death of trailblazing Egyptian thinker, doctor and writer Nawal El Saadawi who died in Cairo on March 21, 2021. The following interview with El Saadawi was first published on May 24, 2018. EMMA BATHA WHEN the Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi was a young child, she wrote a letter to God challenging him to explain why women were treated differently to men. "He never replied," said El Saadawi, who is still as passionate about women's rights. "I told him, 'if you are not fair, I'm not ready to believe in…
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