Obituary
Feminist campaigned against genital mutilation
An advocate for women in the Arab world, Nawal El Saadawi once wrote on toilet paper with an eyeliner pencil while in jail
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Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi (centre) in February 2011 joined demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Cairo in protests that led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
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Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian author, activist and physician who became an emblem of the struggle for women's rights in the patriarchal Arab world and campaigned against female genital mutilation, which she had endured at age six, died in Cairo on Sunday.
She was 89.
