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HV131- Voices from Tahrir » Nawal El Saadawi

Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, 80, Egyptian writer, veteran women’s rights advocate, psychiatrist and author

Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, 80, is an Egyptian writer, veteran women’s rights advocate, psychiatrist and author of more than forty fiction and non-fiction books, many of which address the persecution of Arab women. In 1981 she was imprisoned after being charged with “political offenses.” In 1982, she founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association. One of the earliest to report on the taboo topic of female genital mutilation, Dr. El Saadawi’s decades-long struggle for women’s rights and against FGM helped pave the way for the adoption of a historic 2008 law that banned the practice in Egypt.


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