As a result, he was exiled to a small town in the Nile Delta, and the government refrained from promoting him for 10 years. Her Upper Egyptian father was a government official in the Ministry of Education, who had campaigned against the British occupation of Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. She had described her mother and father as being relatively liberal when growing up. Saadawi was mutilated (her clitoris cut off) at the age of six, though her father believed that both girls and boys should be educated. The second-eldest of nine children, Saadawi was born in 1931 in the small village of Kafr Tahla, Egypt. In 2005, she won the Inana International Prize in Belgium, and in 2012, the International Peace Bureau awarded her the 2012 Seán MacBride Peace Prize. In 2004, she won the North–South Prize from the Council of Europe. She was awarded honorary degrees on three continents. She was founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman". She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. Nawal El Saadawi ( Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl al-Saʻdāwī, 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician.
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