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Egypt: Nawal El Saadawi's Radical African Feminism Was Ahead of Its Time
The Conversation Africa, 15 April 2021
The Egyptian author, physician and activist Nawal El Saadawi's recent death has brought her writing back into the public eye. Read more »
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Egypt: An Egyptian Woman Who Dared - the Nawal El Saadawi I Knew
The Conversation Africa, 1 April 2021
Throughout the Middle East and beyond, the name Nawal El Saadawi is not one that can be received with indifference. During her lifetime and even after her passing on 21 March 2021,… Read more »
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Egypt: Nawal El Saadawi's Intellectual Life Reflected Eight Decades of Arab Society and Culture
The Conversation Africa, 31 March 2021
Egypt's Nawal El Saadawi was the foremost Arab feminist thinker of the past 50 years. Her ideas inspired generations of Arab women, but also provoked controversy and criticism. Read more »
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Egypt: Feminists Worldwide Mourn Egyptian Trailblazer Nawal El Saadawi
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 22 March 2021
Writers, politicians and feminists pay tribute to pioneering activist who died in Cairo aged 89 Read more »
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Egypt: Nawal El Saadawi - Egypt's Grand Novelist, Physician and Global Activist
The Conversation Africa, 25 March 2021
Egyptian novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89. The author of more than 50 books, she told me in one of our… Read more »
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Egypt: Nawal El Saadawi - the Fierce Feminist Who Liberated Herself From Fear
Daily Maverick, 22 March 2021
Nawal el Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist writer-activist who died on Sunday at 89, was a physician, psychiatrist and revolutionary pathbreaker. She wasn't afraid of death, believing… Read more »
Activists Mourn Egypt's Nawal El Saadawi, A Trailblazer Who Dared
Writers, politicians, and feminists united to pay tribute to pioneering Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi following her death aged 89. They vowed that her work would live on through the generations whom she inspired in the Middle East and beyond. El Saadawi trained as a doctor after rejecting a child marriage. She wrote more than 50 books, she smashed taboos from sexuality and sex work to female genital mutilation - a practice she suffered as a child. Her writing and political activism made her many enemies over the decades, upsetting governments, religious authorities and hardline groups. She told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2018 she had received countless death threats. El Saadawi was jailed in 1981 after criticising late former president Anwar Sadat and spent nearly two decades in exile during late former president Hosni Mubarak's rule. She died in a Cairo hospital after a long illness.
