Library Weekly

On 8 March International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated every year around the world. Egyptian feminist, medical doctor and novelist Nawal El Saadawi was one of the 100 Women of the Year chosen by Time magazine as part of a large celebratory project for IWD 2020. "Nawal El Saadawi  (27 October 1931 - 21 March 2021) has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World'.

 

Nawal El Saadawi is founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. ...  She has held the positions of Author for the Supreme Council for Arts and Social Sciences, Cairo; Director General of the Health Education Department, Ministry of Health, Cairo, Secretary General of the Medical Association, Cairo, Egypt, and medical doctor at the University Hospital and Ministry of Health. She is the founder of the Health Education Association and the Egyptian Women Writers' Association; she was Chief Editor of Health Magazine in Cairo, and Editor of Medical Association Magazine. ... "

 

(From the English Wikipedia, edited.)