Nawal El Saadawi
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 3
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- October 22, 1931
- Died
- March 21, 2021
- Place of birth
- Kafr Tahlah, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as
- Nawal ElsaadawiNawal Sadawiنوال السعداوىنوال السعداوي
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"
