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Nawal el Saadawi est une écrivaine égyptienne née le 27 octobre 1931 près du Caire.

Médecin psychiatre et féministe, elle est emprisonnée en 1981 pour s'être opposée à la loi du parti unique sous Anouar el-Sadate. Son livre Mémoires de la prison des femmes relate cet épisode. Libérée sous Moubarak elle fonde en 1982 l’Association arabe pour la solidarité des femmes qui est interdite en 1991. Ses œuvres sur la condition de la femme, sur l'intégrisme religieux et sur les brutalités policières lui valent d'être poursuivie et contrainte à plusieurs reprises à l'exil. Mais elle revient ensuite en Égypte. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. octobre 1931
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“The hijab has nothing to do with moral values.”

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Nawal El-Saadawi

Statement on Al-Arabiya TV (3 March 2007), as quoted in "The Hijab: Is it Religiously mandated?" by Farzana Hassan and Tarek Fatah at Islamic Research Foundation International, Inc. http://www.irfi.org/articles3/articles_4801_4900/the%20hijab-%20is%20it%20religiously%20mandatedhtml.htm<!-- DEAD LINK Nawal Al-Sa'dawi Talks about Her Beliefs and Explains Her Decision to Leave Egypt: I Am Nauseated by Accusations against Me http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1396 -->
Contexte: The hijab has nothing to do with moral values. A woman's moral values are reflected in her eyes, in the way she talks, and in the way she walks. They put on a hijab and go dancing, wearing high heels and lipstick. They wear tight jeans that show their bellies.

“Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.”

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The Hidden Face of Eve (1980)
Contexte: Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.

“Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam.”

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The Hidden Face of Eve (1980)
Contexte: Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.

“I’m surrounded by young people, day and night. Thousands of them. The government is afraid of the young, and they won’t touch me because they know I have the power of the young people behind me.”

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On how writers like her are protected by the younger generation since the 2011 revolution in Egypt in “Nawal El Saadawi: ‘Do you feel you are liberated? I feel I am not’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/11/nawal-el-saadawi-interview-do-you-feel-you-are-liberated-not in The Guardian (2015 Oct 11)