What is Nawal El Saadawi?
{{Infobox person | image = Nawal_El_Saadawi_02.JPG | image_size = 150px | | name = Nawal El Saadawi<br />نوال السعداوى | caption = Nawal El Saadawi | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|10|27|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Kafr Tahla]], [[Egypt]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|3|21|1931|10|27|mf=y}} | death_place =[[Cairo]], Egypt | religion = | occupation = Physician, [[psychiatrist]], [[author]], [[feminist]] | spouse = [[Sherif Hatata]] (1964-2010; divorced) | children = 2 }} '''Nawal El Saadawi''' (Arabic: نوال السعداوى, October 27, 1931 &ndash; March 21, 2021) was an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] [[feminist]] writer, activist, physician and [[psychiatrist]]. She wrote 47 books about the problems of women in Egypt. She was a [[Marxist]]. ==Early life== Saadawi was born in the small village of Kafr Tahla. When Saadawi was six years old her [[clitoris]] was cut off by a [[midwife]] at her home. Saadawi graduated as a medical doctor in 1955 from [[Cairo University]]. ==Career== In 1958 her first novel, ''Memoirs of a Woman Doctor'', was published. Her first non-fiction work was published in 1972. Her best known work ''[[Woman at Point Zero]]'' was published in 1975. In 1981 Saadawi helped publish a feminist magazine, ''Confrontation''. Her [[memoir]] was published in 1986. El-Saadawi worked as a visiting professor at [[Duke University]] between 1993 and 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2004/05/200841012615149119.html|title=Nawal el-Saadawi: Profile|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref> ==Personal life== Saadawi had three husbands. She had one son with her third husband [[Sherif Hatata]]. They divorced in 2010. Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at a hospital in [[Cairo]], aged 89.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/407474.aspx|title=Renowned Egyptian feminist, author Nawal El-Saadawi dies at the age of 89|website=[[Ahram Online]]|first=Mohammed|last=Saad|date=21 March 2021|access-date=22 March 2021|archive-date=21 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/w