Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist

Origin date: 25 Mar 2021
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Egyptian novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89.

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01This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Newson-Horst, Adele. (2021). Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's grand novelist, physician and global activist, from The Conversation, 25 March 2021 (online). Available at https://theconversation.com . Accessed on 24 March 2026 DOI: https://doi.org/10.64628/AAJ.pea6qq3wn

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