(NYTIMES) - Dr 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 (March 21).
She was 89.
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