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Nawal El Saadawi
Arabic:
nawwālu s-sacdāwiyy
(1931- ) Egyptian doctor, author and feminist.
Saadawi has dealt a lot with the Arab female psyche, which she percieves as difficult and troubled. She has set out to liberate the mind of the Arab woman, her sexuality, as well as legal position. Saadawi has been a zealous writer, both of books and of articles. Her writings were for a long time considered dangerous for the society, and she had her works published in Beirut, Lebanon, as these were banished in her native Egypt.
Saadawi has been prevented from working as a medical doctor, and she was jailed from 1981 to 1982. In the last years she has been working in rural Egypt, with information work directed at women, in order to liberate them economically from male dominance.
She is especially famous for the book Women at point zero ('al-wajhu l-cariyy lil-mar'ati l-carabiyya), published in 1977.
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