Dr. Nawal El Saadawi is one of Africa's and the Arab world's best known writers and feminists.  As a result of her literary and scholarly writings and her activism, she has faced persecution and harassment from intolerant state officials and religious extremists, including dismissal, imprisonment, and the banning of some of her works.

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