Nawal El Saadawi

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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi ( Arabic نوال السعداوي, DMG Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī ; * October 27, 1931 in Kafr Ṭaḥla , Egypt ) is an Egyptian writer and campaigner for human rights , especially for the rights of women.

Life

After childhood in the country (in the village of Kafr Ṭaḥla, al-Qalyubiyya Province , Nile Delta ) Nawal El Saadawi studied medicine in Cairo (1949-1954) and New York (Columbia University, 1955-1956).

As a doctor, she initially practiced outside of Cairo and got to know the grievances of the common people in rural areas. She later moved back to Cairo, where she worked at the university hospital there, and in 1967 she was employed as director of health education in the Egyptian Ministry of Health. As such, she was the editor of the magazine aṣ-Ṣiḥḥa ("Health").

After the publication of a provocative study on the sexual socialization of Egyptian women ( al-Mar'a wa-l-ǧins , "Woman and Sexuality", 1971) the magazine was discontinued and Saadawi was removed from office (1972). In addition, she was banned from publishing in Egypt, which subsequently forced her to publish her novels in Beirut.

In addition to her work as a writer, she participated as a doctor in UN women's projects in Africa and the Middle East from 1978 to 1980, but from 1980 she finally concentrated on writing.

In 1981 she was arrested as a member of the opposition under President Anwar as-Sadat , but released after Mubarak took office. She also processed her three-month imprisonment in literary terms in Mudhakkirati fi siǧn an-nisa (1984). In 1982 she founded the Arab Women Solidarity Association (AWSA) to improve the social and economic living conditions of women . However, this was dissolved again in 1991 by a court order.

In 1992, Saadawi went into exile in the USA after death threats from fundamentalist circles (until 1997). Also conservative religious forces wanted her from her husband because of their controversial and for Egyptian society provocative interpretation of Islam (presented e.g. in the volume of essays al-Waǧh al-'ary li-l-mar'a l-'arabiyah , 1979) Forced divorce for Sherif Hetata. However, Saadawi won this trial (2001), which also caused quite a stir in German-language newspapers.

In 2004 she took part in the presidential elections, but withdrew her candidacy in July 2005 in protest at the unfair campaign conditions.

In August 2006 it published on its website a protest note signed by many intellectuals (e.g. Noam Chomsky , Tariq Ali ) condemning the disproportionate severity of the "US-backed Israeli attack on Lebanon".

In February 2007, she was interrogated by the Attorney General in Cairo on charges of apostasy . In Egypt the question is being discussed whether the trip abroad following the interrogation can be regarded as a voluntary exile . Saadawi is on a radical Islamist death list.

2019 Saadawi was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.

Nawal El Saadawi

Awards

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Works (selection)

(If a German translation is missing, the English title is given.)

  • Mudhakkirat tabiba, 1965, Ex .: Memoirs of a woman doctor, 1988
  • al-Mar'a wa-l-ǧins (Eng .: "Women and Sexuality"), not translated, 1972
  • al-Waǧh al-'ary li-l-mar'a l-'arabiya (Eng .: "The naked face for the Arab woman"), 1979, Ex .: Chador. Women in Islam, 1980
  • Imra'atun 'inda nuqtat as-sifr, 1977, Ex .: I spit on you. Report by a woman at zero point, 1984
  • Ughniyat al-atfal ad-da'iriya, 1978, ex .: Ringelreihen, 1990 and Hamida's story, 1992
  • Suqut al-imam, 1987, Ex .: The Fall of the Imam, 1994

literature

  • Amal Amireh: Framing Nawal el Saadawi. Arab feminism in a transnational world. In: Signs. 26: 1 (2000), pp. 215-249.
  • Fedwa Malti-Douglas: Men, women and God (s). Nawal el Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics. University of California Press, Berkeley 1995. (Title is online .)
  • Diana Royer: A critical study of the works of Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer and activist. Mellen, Lewiston 2001.
  • Georges Tarabishi: Woman against her sex. A critique of Nawal el-Saadawi. With a reply by Nawal el-Saadawi. Saqi Books, London 1988.

swell

  • Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Critical Lexicon of foreign language contemporary literature. Edition Text + Criticism, München 1983-.
  • Khalid al-Maaly and Mona Naggar: Lexicon of Arabic Authors of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Palmyra, Heidelberg 2004.
  • Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Arabic literature. Routledge, London 1998.

Web links

Commons : Nawal El Saadawi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Source: http://blog.zeit.de/joerglau/2007/02/27/agyptischer-feministin-droht-offenbar-apostasie-prozess_326
  2. ↑ Source: http://www.sandmonkey.org/2007/02/26/did-nawal-el-seadawy-escape-egypt/
  3. ^ "Women's movement in Egypt:" There will be a second revolution "" spiegel.de of December 21, 2012
  4. ↑ www.nawalsaadawi.net
personal data
SURNAME Saadawi, Nawal El
ALTERNATIVE NAMES as-Sa'dawi, Nawal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian writer, feminist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kafr Ṭaḥla , Egypt