Books By Nawal El-Saadawi - Author

Nawal El Saadawi was born in 1931. She is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist, whose writings focus on the subject of women in Islam. She is well known for her exploration of female genital mutilation in Egyptian society and has been described as "the Simone de Beauvoir" of the Arab world. She is founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. In addition to having been awarded honorary degrees on three continents, she has won the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe (2004), the Inana International Prize in Belgium (2005), and the International Peace Bureau's Sean MacBride Peace Prize (2012).