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Nawal El Saadawi – Egypt's 'unputdownable' Campaigner
Interview with Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights
Nawal El Saadawi, 'unputdownable' Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights, talks about events that contributed to her new volume of autobiography, Walking Through Fire; she has been censored, fired from a ministerial job, and put on an Islamic fundamentalist death list but still lives much of the time in Cairo. Plus: a review of David Gilmour's book, The Long Recessional: the Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling; and Suzan-Lori Parks becomes the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama with her play Topdog/Underdog.
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91Èȱ¬ World Service Archive
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