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Born
She was born in the small village of Kafr Tahla, the second eldest of nine children -
Married Ahmed Helmi
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Graduated as a medical doctor
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Marriage ended
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Met her third husband, Sherif Hetata, while sharing an office in the Ministry of Health.
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Published Al-Mar'a wa Al-Jins (Woman and Sex)
Confronting and contextualising various aggressions perpetrated against women's bodies, including female circumcision, which became a foundational text of second-wave feminism. As a consequence of the book as well as her political activities, Saadawi was dismissed from her position at the Ministry of Health.[11] Similar pressures cost her a later position as chief editor of a health journal and as Assistant General Secretary in the Medical Association in Egypt. -
Published Men and Sex
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Contact with a prisoner at Qanatir served as inspiration for an earlier work, a novel titled Imraʾah ʿinda nuqṭat aṣ-ṣifr A Woman at Point Zero
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Worked on researching women and neurosis in the Ain Shams University's Faculty of Medicine
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She was the United Nations Advisor for the Women's Programme in Africa (ECA) and Middle East (ECWA)
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Saadawi helped publish a feminist magazine, Confrontation, and was imprisoned in September by President Anwar al-Sadat
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Saadawi was one of the women held at Qanatir Women's Prison. Her incarceration formed the basis for her memoir, Mudhakkirâtî fî sijn an-nisâʾ Memoirs from the Women's Prison
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Was the playwright for Twelve Women in a Cell
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Published The Fall of the Imam
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When her life was threatened by Islamists and political persecution, Saadawi was forced to flee Egypt
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Moved back to Egypt
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University of California, Saadawi described the US-led war on Afghanistan as "a war to exploit the oil in the region", and US foreign policy and its support of Israel as "real terrorism".
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Awarded North-South Prize by Council of Europe
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protested in Tahrir Square
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Saadawi said that "the root of the oppression of women lies in the global post-modern capitalist system, which is supported by religious fundamentalism