Nawal El Saadawi received on 7 Nov 2009 the International Literary Award from the Pan African Writers Association ( PAWA ) and the Honorary Membership of PAWA View Award [pdf]
Nawal gives a talk at the Pen international Literay Festival in New York 3 May 2009.
To view more photos from the event please click here: link [Images courtsey of Beowulf Sheehan ]
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal with Anthony Appiah
Nawal book signing after her lecture
May 14th 08: Nawal wins the case that was filed against her. Court dismisses case:
The State Council's Administrative Court of Justice has rejected the suitcase filed against Dr Nawal al Saadawi claiming for depriving her from Egyptian nationality. The suitcase filed by a lawyer called Samir Sabry claimed lifting nationality from Al Saadawi for her controversial ideas and thoughts. The Hisham Mubarak Law Center joined the case to defend Al Saadawi's right to express her thoughts. The court handed down that the law doesn't allow lifting nationality for holding controversial thoughts or different creed. Court Rejects Al Saadawi Case. [The Hisham Mubarak Law Center].
Case against Nawal: A fundamentalist lawyer named Saad El Dine Sherif Sabry has raised two cases against Nawal because she wrote a play entitled "God Reisgns at the Summit Meeting."In the first case raised in front of the Higher Administrative Court of Maglis Al Dawla he asks that she be deprived of her Egyptian nationality and prevented from entering the country.In the second he requests that all her books be banned by the Minister of Culture.The judgement will be issued on May 29 after several posponements. May 8th 2008
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Recent Articles and News
Launching of the Egypt Chapter of the Global Solidarity for secular Society [GSSS]. You may join the Facebook group by clicking on the Facebook logo. You need to register a facebook account to be able to access the group.
The Fourth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi. Audio podcast.
Nawal giving a speeech at the Brecht Forum in New York 2nd May 2009
Recent Books
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Dr. Saadawi's books re-published by Zed Books. Dr. Saadawi's UK
tour:
In October 2007 Zed Books was pleased to host renowned Egyptian author, Nawal el Saadawi, on a tour of the UK and Ireland to promote three reissues of her classics: God Dies by the Nile, Woman at Point Zero, and The Hidden Face of Eve. During the events on the tour, Nawal was ‘in conversation’ with a variety of distinguished people, and was heard by over 1400 people in many different venues. In some cases events were oversubscribed as people took a rare chance to hear someone they had admired for years. An accomplished and empassioned speaker, she never failed to engage her audiences. [more]
The Fourth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi. 