Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author (died 2021)

Nawal El Saadawi

Egyptian feminist writer, activist, doctor and psychiatrist (1931–2021)

Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the concerns of women in the Global South pertaining to sexuality, patriarchy, class, and colonialism.