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Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi, who campaigned against genital mutilation, dies at 89
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Nawal El Saadawi defended the rights of women against social and religious strictures for most of her adult life.
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(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.
