Amid growing street protests, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has called on parliament to change the constitution to allow opposition candidates to run for president. We speak with famed Egyptian ...

Yesterday, Sunday March 21, famous Egyptian feminist and writer Nawal El Saadawi died after a struggle with illness at the age of 90. Egyptian newspapers reported that El Saadawi has been recently ...

As Egyptians and Arabs mourned the well-known Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi who passed away yesterday in Cairo, many online users noted that an article by the New Arab commenting on El Saadawi's ...

Nawal El Saadawi, a famous Egyptian feminist author, physician and psychiatrist, has died aged 89, state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday. El Saadawi was known as a defender of women’s rights ...

This week Egypt lost its most prominent and unabashedly controversial feminist, Nawal El Saadawi. An atypical medical doctor, resolute feminist, daring writer, and public figure of strong character, ...

Renowned feminist and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi was a political prisoner and exiled from Egypt for years. Now she has returned to Cairo, and she joins us to discuss the role of women ...

A new book reflects on the shared life experience of controversial writer and women's rights advocate Nawal El-Saadawi and political analyst Sherif Hatata, who struggle for years against set ideas ...

Award-winning feminist author of more than 55 books was a resolute challenger to Egyptian governments Egypt’s trailblazing writer Nawal El Saadawi died on Sunday at the age of 89, after a lifetime ...

When her grandmother told her that “girls are a blight,” a young Nawal El Saadawi stamped her foot, furious that a member of her own family would believe “a boy is worth 15 girls at least.” Around the ...