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...Zimu Niu [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 At exactly 21:15 Beijing time on March 21, 2021, my PhD adviser, Professor Xue of Beijing Foreign Studies University, sent me a text message that Nawal El Saadawi had died...

...Zillah Eisenstein [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 If you have lived an important life there is too much to say, there is no summing up, so this is a remembrance when there are too many memories. Dear Nawal...

...Robert J. C. Young [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Nawal El Saadawi was trained as a medical doctor, taking her place alongside two other doctor revolutionaries from the global South, Che Guevara and Frantz Fanon—that most human...

...Zimu Niu Abstract This article discusses a model of male-female relation promoted by the Egyptian writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. El Saadawi argued that man and woman are born exactly the same: not only do they resemble each other, but they constitute together a single entity that is humanity...

...Nawal El Saadawi Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 NAWAL EL SAADAWI  183 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  A Postmodern Christian-Muslim Feminist Nawal El...

...Walter D. Mignolo [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 As I remember it, it was some time, some day in March 1993 that a lecture by Nawal El Saadawi was announced that I knew I would not miss. Though I did not know Nawal El...

...Ranjana Khanna [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Nawal El Saadawi—writer, physician, psychiatrist, controversial feminist activist—has been one of the most famous, indeed infamous, feminists in the world. From her psychiatric...

...miriam cooke [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 The Arab world’s leading feminist activist and writer, Nawal El Saadawi, died on Sunday, March 21, 2021. She was eighty-nine. Many events happened around the world...

... response was astonished outrage. “You’re telling me, Nawal El Saadawi,” she said, “what I can and cannot speak about?” This, obviously, was absurd, given that Nawal was famous for having gone to prison for saying and writing exactly what she thought. I joined her in her protest and Ms. A. soon backed down...

...Shereen Abouelnaga [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Paying tribute to her mother, Mona Helmy resurrects Nawal El Saadawi poetically. In these poems Helmy orchestrates two voices aptly. The first voice recalls the mother’s...

... some stories in the late 1950s, highlighted this absence. Then, in the mid-1970s, the situation began to change. In 1975 the Egyptian physician-activist-novelist Nawal El Saadawi, who had been publishing nonfiction since the late 1950s, brought out her Imraʾa ʿinda nuqtat al-sifr . This novella about...

...Evelyne Accad [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 It gives me great pleasure to honor Nawal El Saadawi, who has been such an inspiration and a role model in my life. My awareness of the numerous challenges that Arab women face...

...Fatima Sadiqi [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 The Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) is honored to cosponsor and participate in a celebration of the life and work of Nawal El Saadawi, who died on March...

...Margot Badran [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 I came to know Nawal El Saadawi through The Hidden Face of Eve , published in London in 1980. It was a translation of Al-wajh al-ʿari lil-marʾa al-ʿarabiyya , published...

... beautiful mother, passed on Mother’s Day, Sunday, March 21, 2021, at 12:30 p.m. in a hospital far from her daughter and son and her home and her pen and her intimate things. For Nawal El Saadawi . . . my mother, October 27, 1930–March 21, 2021 Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East...

... departed, clearly the person to write the piece on Egypt was Nawal El Saadawi. She agreed, drafted the essay, gave it to her typist—and the next day was arrested by Anwar Sadat. Afraid that her typist would be implicated by being in possession of this “incendiary” article on women’s rights, Nawal got...

... the Muslimah Perspective,” author Nawal El Saadawi on “Muslim Women in the Mar- JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall 2008) © 2008 119 120  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 4:3 ket,” human rights...

... and feminist Nawal El Saadawi, and Tayyibah Taylor, founding editor of Azizah, North America’s first Muslim women’s magazine. The conference broadly explored the salience of a newly emergent transnational Islamic culture industry centering on Muslim women. The articles here focus...

... introduces a themed section of three articles on Egyptian women writers. While each author zooms in on a different literary work—Zimu Niu on Nawal El Saadawi’s Circling Song , Valerie Anishchenkova on Miral al-Tahawy’s Blue Aubergine , and Caroline Seymour-Jorn on al-Tahawy’s Tent —all explore how...

... al-Zayyat, The Loved Ones by Alia Mamdouh, Points of the Compass: Stories by Sahar Tawfiq, Memoirs from the Women’s Prison by Nawal El Saadawi, and My Grandmother’s Cactus: Stories by Egyptian Women. Banu Gökarıksel is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University...