Writer Nawal al-Saadawi has died at the age of 89.
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ANDREU DALMAU / SIPA
Nawal al-Saadawi, writer and Egyptian figure in the emancipation of women in the Arab world, died on Sunday at the age of 89, state newspaper
Al-Ahram reported
.
Author in particular of two feminist books of reference,
In the beginning, there was the woman
and
The woman and the sex
, she fought for a long time for the rights of the women and against the patriarchy in the Arab world.
As a doctor, she wrote more than fifty books in which she spoke out against polygamy, the wearing of the veil, the inequality of inheritance rights between men and women in Islam and especially excision, which concerns more than 90% of Egyptians.
A departure for the United States after threats
She left Egypt in 1993, after receiving threats from Islamists, to join the United States.
She was a writer in residence for three years at Duke University, North Carolina.
Back in Egypt in 2005, she embarked on a presidential campaign before abandoning the race, assuring that the security forces prevented her from conducting her electoral meetings.
In 2007, the theological institution Al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious in Sunni Islam, lodged a complaint against her for attacking Islam.
She was criticized in 2013 for supporting the impeachment of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by the general-turned-president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
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