Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian writer, physician, psychiatrist and feminist activist, born in 1931 and died in 2021, whose fiction and nonfiction alike confronted sexuality, patriarchy, social class and colonialism as they bore on the lives of women across the Arab world. As founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and the author of influential works including Women and Sex (1972) and the novel Woman at Point Zero (1975), she became one of the most prominent and internationally recognized voices challenging oppressive cultural and legal practices affecting women in Egypt and beyond. Her activism repeatedly brought her into conflict with the Egyptian state, including a period of imprisonment in 1981, but she continued writing, practicing medicine and teaching at universities internationally until her death.
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AwardCatalonia International Prize, 2003. 1 AwardFranco-Arabic Friendship Award, 1982. 1 Awardhonorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles, 2007. 1 Awardhonorary doctor of the University of Chicago. 1 Awardhonorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, 1997. 1 Awardhonorary doctor of the University of Tromso. 1 Awardhonorary doctorate of the University of Gävle. 1 Awardhonorary doctorate of the University of York. 1 AwardNorth-South Prize, 2004. 1 AwardSeán MacBride Peace Prize, 2012. 1 AwardStig Dagerman Prize, 2011. 1 Classification
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Why was Nawal El Saadawi imprisoned in 1981?
She helped publish the feminist magazine Confrontation and criticized President Sadat, who imprisoned her in September 1981. She was freed a month after his assassination.
Nawal El Saadawi had long been viewed as controversial and dangerous by the Egyptian government, and in 1981 she helped publish a feminist magazine called Confrontation. She was imprisoned in September of that year by President Anwar Sadat. She later said she was arrested because she had believed Sadat when he claimed Egypt had democracy and a multi-party system in which criticism was allowed, so she began criticizing his policy. She was released later that year, one month after the president's assassination.
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27 October 1931
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27 October 1931
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21 March 2021
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21 March 2021
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Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: Franco-Arabic Friendship Award
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: Catalonia International Prize
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: North-South Prize
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: Stig Dagerman Prize
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: Seán MacBride Peace Prize
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: BBC 100 Women
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: honorary doctor of the University of Tromso
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: honorary doctor of the University of Chicago
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: honorary doctorate of the University of York
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
Award: honorary doctorate of the University of Gävle
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931-21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.
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