Nawal El Saadawi
Acting
October 22, 1931
Died at age 89
March 21, 2021
Date of Death
Kafr Tahlah, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt
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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"
