Nawal El Saadawi
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Woman at Point Zero review – fierce and lyrical fusion score underpins classic feminist story
A female prisoner’s experiences of patriarchal brutality are intensified by Bushra El-Turk’s music, skilfully combining Arabic and western instrumentation
The Observer's obituaries of 2021
Nawal El Saadawi remembered by Mona EltahawyThe influential and fearless Egyptian feminist author, doctor and government official is remembered by the journalist and social commentator
Nawal El Saadawi, trailblazing Egyptian writer, dies aged 89
Award-winning feminist author of more than 55 books was a resolute challenger to Egyptian governments
Further reading
Ultrarunning, prison, surviving Aids ... the best tales of enduranceFrom Shackleton in the Antarctic to Edmund White on the Aids crisis, Emily Chappell rounds up stories of survival
My year of reading African women, by Gary Younge
Shamed by a gap in his reading, the Guardian writer vowed to read only fiction by African women in 2018. After 19 novels spanning Nigeria to Ethiopia, he shares what he learned
Woman at Point Zero review – compelling music from unfamiliar sources as Arab voices thrill
Scenes from a new operatic adaptation of Nawal El Saadawi’s novel about an Egyptian prostitute were the centrepiece of this Shubbak festival concert
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi review – classic feminist novel
Newly reissued, this powerful work about a woman on death row telling her story on the eve of her hanging builds to a blood-curdling indictment of patriarchal society
Nawal El Saadawi: ‘Do you feel you are liberated? I feel I am not’
Books blog
An Egyptian classic of feminist fiction
Zeina by Nawal El Saadawi – review
Top 100 women: activists and campaigners
Nawal El SaadawiEgyptian doctor, psychiatrist, feminist, university lecturer and writer
Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's radical feminist
Writer Nawal El Saadawi has braved prison, exile and death threats in her fight against female oppression. She isn't about to give up now, she tells Homa Khaleeli
First person
Meet Egypt's most radical womanEgyptian feminist and activist Nawal el Saadawi has no regrets about her writing or politics
Feminist wins marriage reprieve
A Cairo court dismissed a case yesterday seeking to forcibly dissolve the 37-year marriage of the prominent feminist Nawal el-Saadawi as a punishment for her alleged insults of the Islamic religion.
