Nawal El Saadawy – Activist, Physican and Writer

Nawal El Saadawy (aka) Nawal Zeinab El Sayed. Feminist Writer, Activist, Doctor, Psychiatrist.

Dedicated to combating Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Founder:

  • Founder and President: Arab Women’s Solidarity Association
  • Co-Founder: Arab Association for Human Rights

Books:

  • A Notebook of an 85 year old Girl (2017)
  • Memoirs from the Women’s Prison (1983)
  • Woman At Point Zero (1975)
  • Women and Sex (1972)
  • etc…

Awards / Honours:

  • North-South Prize, Council of Europe (2004)
  • Inana International Prize, Belgium (2005)
  • Sean McBride Peace Prize, International Peace Bureau (2012)
  • Declared ‘The Simone de Beauvoir’ of the Arab World
  • Listed in TIME magazine’s 100 Women of the Year

Passed away on March 21st, 2021

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pix: Nawal El Saadawi, 1981 is a photograph by Portrait by Sarah Jane Moon for TIME which was uploaded on March 5th, 2020.

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