Nawal El Saadawi
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Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including s
Saadawi in 2012
Shirin Ershadi, Shirin Ebadi and Nawal el-Saadawi
Saadawi at the Göteborg Book Fair in 2010
Upper Egypt
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Upper Egypt is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel North. It thus starts at Beni Suef and stretches down to Lake Nasser.
Nawal El Saadawi
…father believed that both girls and boys should be educated. She had described her mother and father as being relatively liberal when growing up. 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…
11th Dynasty model of Egyptian soldiers from the tomb of Mesehti, Upper Egypt
11th Dynasty model of Nubian archers from a tomb in Asyut, Upper Egypt
Pair of guardian statuettes, depicting Middle Kingdom pharaohs, presumably Senusret I or Amenemhat II, with the white crown of Upper Egypt (left), the other with the red crown of Lower Egypt. The 12th dynasty had origins in Ta-Seti, Upper Egypt.
Megaliths from Nabta Playa displayed in the Aswan, Upper Egypt