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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|1931-10-27|2021-03-21}}) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist.
[[File:Nawal_El_Saadawi_02.JPG|thumb|Saadawi at the Göteborg Book Fair in 2010]]
==Advocacy against genital mutilation==
{{WikipediaQuote|URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawal_El_Saadawi#Advocacy_against_genital_mutilation|title=Nawal El Saadawi}}
<blockquote>At a young age, Saadawi underwent the process of female genital mutilation.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/18/62/273741/Books/Review/At-,-Nawal-ElSaadawi-writes-about-Nawal-ElSaadawi.aspx
|title=At 85, Nawal El-Saadawi writes about Nawal El-Saadawi
|first=Mahmoud
|last=El-Wardani
|website=Ahram Online
|date=2017-08-05
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}</ref> As an adult, she has written about and criticized this practice. She responded to the death of a 12-year-old girl, Bedour Shaker, during a genital circumcision operation in 2007 by writing: "Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price ... for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn't cut children's organs."<ref>{{REFbook
|first=Nawal
|last=El Saadawi
|author-link=Nawal El Saadawi
|title=The Hidden Face of Eve
|chapter=Part 1: The Mutilated Half
}}</ref> '''As a doctor and human rights activist, Saadawi is also opposed to male [[circumcision]]. She believes that both male and female children deserve protection from genital mutilation.'''<ref>{{REFweb
|first=Maggie
|last=Michael
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702171148/http://www.physorg.com/news102393179.html
|title=Egypt Officials Ban Female Circumcision
|archived=yes
|date=2007-07-02
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
{{SEEALSO}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Nawal_El_Saadawi|Nawal El Saadawi|2021-03-22}}
{{LINKS}}
* {{REFnews
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/obituaries/nawal-el-saadawi-dead.html
|title=Nawal El Saadawi, Advocate for Women in the Arab World, Dies at 89
|last=Cowell
|first=Alan
|website=The New York Times
|date=2021-03-21
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}
* {{REFnews
|url=http://www.theglobaldispatches.com/articles/nawal-al-saadawi
|title=Nawal al Saadawi
|last=Mitchell
|first=Aliston
|website=The Global Dispatches
|date=2010-05-16
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}
{{REF}}
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[[Category:Female]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
[[Category:Author]]
[[Category:Intactivist]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Psychiatrist]]
[[Category:Egypt]]
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|1931-10-27|2021-03-21}}) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist.
[[File:Nawal_El_Saadawi_02.JPG|thumb|Saadawi at the Göteborg Book Fair in 2010]]
==Advocacy against genital mutilation==
{{WikipediaQuote|URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawal_El_Saadawi#Advocacy_against_genital_mutilation|title=Nawal El Saadawi}}
<blockquote>At a young age, Saadawi underwent the process of female genital mutilation.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/18/62/273741/Books/Review/At-,-Nawal-ElSaadawi-writes-about-Nawal-ElSaadawi.aspx
|title=At 85, Nawal El-Saadawi writes about Nawal El-Saadawi
|first=Mahmoud
|last=El-Wardani
|website=Ahram Online
|date=2017-08-05
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}</ref> As an adult, she has written about and criticized this practice. She responded to the death of a 12-year-old girl, Bedour Shaker, during a genital circumcision operation in 2007 by writing: "Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price ... for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn't cut children's organs."<ref>{{REFbook
|first=Nawal
|last=El Saadawi
|author-link=Nawal El Saadawi
|title=The Hidden Face of Eve
|chapter=Part 1: The Mutilated Half
}}</ref> '''As a doctor and human rights activist, Saadawi is also opposed to male [[circumcision]]. She believes that both male and female children deserve protection from genital mutilation.'''<ref>{{REFweb
|first=Maggie
|last=Michael
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702171148/http://www.physorg.com/news102393179.html
|title=Egypt Officials Ban Female Circumcision
|archived=yes
|date=2007-07-02
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
{{SEEALSO}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Nawal_El_Saadawi|Nawal El Saadawi|2021-03-22}}
{{LINKS}}
* {{REFnews
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/obituaries/nawal-el-saadawi-dead.html
|title=Nawal El Saadawi, Advocate for Women in the Arab World, Dies at 89
|last=Cowell
|first=Alan
|website=The New York Times
|date=2021-03-21
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}
* {{REFnews
|url=http://www.theglobaldispatches.com/articles/nawal-al-saadawi
|title=Nawal al Saadawi
|last=Mitchell
|first=Aliston
|website=The Global Dispatches
|date=2010-05-16
|accessdate=2021-03-22
}}
{{REF}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Female]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
[[Category:Author]]
[[Category:Intactivist]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Psychiatrist]]
[[Category:Egypt]]