Nawal El Saadawi in Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Internationally acclaimed writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi is perhaps most famous for her books on the oppression of Arab women. An outspoken critic of successive governments in her native Egypt, she has been harrassed, imprisoned and threatened, and in 1988, was forced to flee the country when her name appeared on an extremist organisation's death list. Having returned to Egypt in 1996, Nawal El Saadawi remained a thorn in the side of conservative forces in her homeland and five of her books were banned at the Cairo book fair in 2007.
This event is being held as part of Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign and is part of the Sigrid Rausing lecture series.
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