Dr. Nawal al-Sadaawi is the elder stateswoman of Egyptian feminism, indeed world feminism – one of the first writers to expose to the West the horror of female genital mutilation and at the age of 76 still an activist.
Yet it appears (I’m aware that this is an Israel source and Dr Sadaawi is not quoted in it) she has been forced to flee Egypt after decades of withstanding fundamentalist pressure.
(And a nastily slanted piece in the Middle East Times – to which I won’t link although it wouldn’t be hard to find – appears to confirm it.)
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