Nawal El Saadawi

Overview

Nawal El Saadawi born Kafr Tahla, Egypt October 27, 1931. Psychiatrist; physician; novelist; leading feminist. UN adviser on women, 1979; imprisoned 1981, exiled 1988; led women's peace delegation to stop Gulf War, 1991; awarded North-South Prize, 2004.

Quotations

"The US army went to Iraq for the oil, it didn't go for human rights. It killed thousands of people for the oil. It's a colonial war, it's an imperialist war. They did it for humanitarian reasons!—this makes me laugh." (BBC, Sept. 8, 2003; photo Becky's Kaleidoscope)