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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EGYPT