امرأة تحدق في الشمس

Nawal El Saadawi: She is one of the most controversial figures; Where it is difficult for the reader to stand in a middle position, either he is with her or he is against her. She is the most famous of those who called for the liberation of women from their chains, and who openly disobeyed what she called the “male society.” Nawal El-Sayed El-Saadawi was born in Kafr Talha, Dakahlia Governorate, in 1931 AD, to a middle-class family; Her father was an employee of the Ministry of Education, and he played a major role in her life, from him she learned to rebel against the restrictions of society, and that the constants that she does not believe in are idols that are easy to destroy. As for her mother, she is a simple country lady, from whom her daughter inherited the skin and the responsibility. Nawal El Saadawi completed her university studies and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1955. Despite the constant struggle within it between literature and medicine, one of them did not win the battle. Our author was a feisty physician and a questionable writer. She was married three times, and her marriage resulted in a son and a girl, and it was her last marriage to "Sherif Hatata" that propelled her work to the international level by translating it into English. Nawal El-Saadawi wrote more than fifty different works between the novel, the story, the play and the biography, and played with her pen on the Holy Trinity (religion, sex and politics) to undermine it; It calls for women to be liberated from the bondage of men, flying to a broader horizon than equality itself. When the woman wore the hijab in a religious manner, her mind concealed before her hair, and the man lifted it in the name of sex. On the cusp of politics, she lost everything and spent her life defending women; Her freedom was deprived, she was dismissed from her job, her name was included in the list of assassinations, and she had no choice but to search for freedom and safety elsewhere, but wherever she went, the issue of women was her greatest concern, so she kept writing about and to her. Despite her efforts in defending Egyptian and Arab women's issues, she was celebrated by several non-Arab countries, and she was also nominated for a Nobel Prize. The name Nawal El Saadawi remains one of the most important names engraved in the imagination of feminist literature.