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Nawal El Saadawi

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Nawal El Saadawi

Acting · 1931–2021 · Kafr Tahlah, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt

Biography

Nawal Elsaadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman"

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