...Zimu Niu In the early 2010s, my choice of Nawal El Saadawi as a dissertation topic raised eyebrows. Some senior scholars deplored my choice, because they saw in Nawal an attention seeker playing to the gallery. Others were genuinely concerned, sensing that this inexperienced student might suffer...

.... A question came to you: What could we do in the US to    help? Your answer: You cannot help our revolution. You need to    make your own revolution and get rid of your    government and free the world. We are trying, Nawal. We love the path you have carved. I    will miss you as I/we continue...

...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...

...Bruce B. Lawrence [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 If one word could etch and evoke Nawal, it would be SMILE , all caps, all-pervasive. She never ceased to find joy even amid pain, injustice, alienation, and, for her worst...

...Mona Helmy; Miriam Cooke [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 For Nawal El Saadawi . . . my mother, October 27, 1930–March 21, 2021 My mother, the most beautiful mother, passed on Mother’s Day...

...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 References El Saadawi Nawal . 1997 . The Nawal El Saadawi Reader . London : Zed . El Saadawi Nawal . 1999 . A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, in Her Own Words , translated by Hetata Sherif . London : Zed . Beyond...

...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...

...Robin Morgan [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 I met Nawal in the late 1970s, when I began compiling my third anthology Sisterhood Is Global . Since Hoda Shaarawi and Inji Efflatoun (not to speak of Hatshepsut) had long...

... and pieces from what Nawal wrote to me by hand, or I printed from the email to remember and honor the passionate woman who wanted us all to be better people and to acknowledge the force within us. And she did rage against the dying of the light, did not go gentle into that good night. The last time I...

...Leila Ahmed My sense of loss at this moment, with Nawal’s living presence and living voice now gone from this world, is acute and personal. We’ve been colleagues and fellow workers in relation to women in Islam, as well as warm and cordial friends, over these many decades. I will miss her voice...

...miriam cooke The tributes are by ten women and three men, and that, too, is as it should be. While her main interlocutors were women, many men admired her, and she loved men enough to marry three of them, even if she ended up divorcing each one. The meetings that Nawal convened, as Margot Badran...

...Fawzia Afzal-Khan Ik toona achambaan gawan gee Mei ruthra yaar manawan gee. . . . I will sing to cast a spell I will sing to bring my lost Beloved back. . . . —“Spell,” by Bulleh Shah, seventeenth-century Indian Sufi poet Ya Nawal! I will sing for you. In so doing, I...

...Evelyne Accad Resist, resist, resist For all of us resist For the rest of the world, resist Kawmi, Nawal Kawmi [Arabic] Likuluna kawmi Lil alam kuluhu, kawmi Diren [Turkish] Lawan [Malaysian, Indonesian] Makibaka [Filipino] Jaago [Urdu] Mobarese [Iranian] Résiste, résiste, résiste...

...Ranjana Khanna References Bâ Mariama . 1987 . Une si longue lettre . Dakar : Nouvelles Éditions Africaines . Djebar Assia . 1987 . Ombre sultane: Roman . Paris : Lattès . El Saadawi Nawal . 1983 . Woman at Point Zero , translated by Hetata Sherif...

...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...

... 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...

... in politics, religion, and sexuality, El Saadawi had addressed topics central to the AMEWS mission since the organization’s inception in 1985. 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...