Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. She wrote about women in Islam, sexuality, patriarchy and colonialism, and she founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founded the Arab Association for Human Rights. Her novels include God Dies by the Nile, set in a rural Egyptian village where a woman stands up to a corrupt official, and Woman at Point Zero, alongside the nonfiction Memoirs from the Women's Prison and The Hidden Face of Eve.