Her most renowned novel, Woman at Point Zero, was published in Beirut in 1973. It was at this time that she began to write, in works of fiction and non-fiction, the books on the oppression of Arab women for which she has become famous. From 1973 to 1978 Saadawi worked at the High Institute of Literature and Science. The magazine Health, which she founded and had edited for more than three years, was closed down. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the government as a result of political pressure. During this time, she studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master’s degree in Public Health in 1966. From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked for the Egyptian government as Director General for Public Health Education. After graduating from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry, she practised as a medical doctor for two years. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together. Born in 1931, in a village outside Cairo, she wrote her first novel, Diary of a Child Called Souad, at the age of thirteen. Nawal El Saadawi was an internationally renowned writer, novelist and fighter for women’s rights both within Egypt and abroad.
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