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          Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class.

           

           

          ©D. Carpenter-Latiri portrait of Nawal El-Saadawi UK 2015

           

          El-Saadawi, N. (2000). Memoirs of a woman doctor. London: Saqi Books.

          Reviewed by Dr Dora Carpenter-Latiri, Senior Lecturer, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Brighton

          Nawal El-Saadawi, the famous Egyptian feminist activist, trained and practised as a medical doctor, a psychiatrist and a surgeon.

          Physician, psychiatrist and a prolific novelist, Dr Nawal El Saadawi was an influential voice in the fight for women's rights.

        1. Physician, psychiatrist and a prolific novelist, Dr Nawal El Saadawi was an influential voice in the fight for women's rights.
        2. Nawal El Saadawi was an internationally renowned writer, novelist and fighter for women's rights both within Egypt and abroad.
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        4. Saadawi is a figure of international significance, and her work has a central place in Arabic history and culture of the last half century.
        5. The Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi fearlessly told unpleasant truths about discrimination against women in Arab countries.

          6. She is also a prolific writer and has written more than 50 books, several of which have been translated into English. Her writings – essays and fiction – address issues of gender and class in Egypt and the Arab world. She is a vocal campaigner against male and female genital circumcision (from 1979 to 1980 she was the United Nations Advisor for the Women’s Programme in Africa and the Middle East), against religious patriarchy and against political Islam.

          She has also campaigned for education, women’s rights and freedom of expression and was jailed under Sadat. Her life was threat