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Saʻdāwī, Nawāl

LC control no.n 81133834
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPJ7862.A3
Personal name headingSaʻdāwī, Nawāl
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Variant(s)Saadawi, Nawal El
El Saadawi, Nawal
El Saadoui, Naoual
Saadoui, Naoual el
Alsaʻdaṿi, Naṿal
נואל אס־סעדאוי
سعداوي، نوال
سعدوى، نوال
نوال السعداوي
Other standard no.84254254
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Associated countryEgypt
Birth date1931-10-27
Death date2021-03-21
Place of birthKafr Ṭaḥlah (Egypt)
Field of activityLiterature
Medicine Feminism Arabic literature Psychiatry Public health
AffiliationDuke University Jāmiʻat al-Qāhirah Columbia University United Nations
Profession or occupationAuthors Physicians Psychiatrists Feminists
Writers
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inHer Ḥanān qalīl, 196-?
Her The hidden face of Eve, 1982: CIP t.p. (Nawal el Saadawi) CIP data sheet (Nawal El Saadawi)
Her Douze femmes dans Kanater, c1984: t.p. (Naoual el Saadoui) cover flap (Egyptienne; b. 1931; médecin)
Majmūʻat qiṣaṣ, 1988: t.p. (D. Nawāl al-Saʻdāwī)
Her Nefilato shel ha-imam, 1991: t.p. (Naṿal Alsaʻdaṿi)
The innocence of the Devil, c1994: CIP t.p. (Nawal El Saadawi) introd. (grad. of the Faculty of Medicine, 1955)
A daughter of Isis, 1999: CIP t.p. (Nawal El Saadawi) galley (b. 1931; literary author and physician; wife of Sherif Hetata; visiting prof., Duke Univ.)
Zīnah, 2009: p. 4 of cover (Nawāl al-Saʻdāwī, medical degree from the University of Cairo)
Wikipedia, September 21, 2018 (Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي‎, born 27 October 1931); Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist; born Kafr Tahla, Egypt)
NY times online, March 22, 2021: obit. (Nawal El Saadawi; advocate for women in the Arab Word; dies at 89 in Cairo; Egyptian author, activist and physician)
Washington post WWW site, viewed March 24, 2021 (in obituary dated March 23, 2021: Nawal El Saadawi; Dr. El Saadawi, who died March 21 at 89 in Cairo, spent decades championing women's equality, emerging as one of the Arab world's foremost feminists while publishing more than 50 novels, story collections, plays and nonfiction books. Nawal El Saadawi was born in Kafr Tahla, a village outside Cairo, on Oct. 27, 1931. Dr. El Saadawi received a medical degree from Cairo University in 1955, specializing in psychiatry, and returned to her village to work as a doctor, often treating the damage from female genital mutilation. In 1966 she earned a master's degree in public health from Columbia University. She later practiced psychiatry and worked for the United Nations, including as director of a women's training and research program in Ethiopia)
Associated languageara