Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian activist
From the Guardian.co.uk an excellent story about the Egyptian humanist & feminist Nawal El Saadawi.
Her work continues to be explosive. Her play, God Resigns in the Summit Meeting – in which God is questioned by Jewish, Muslim and Christian prophets and finally quits – proved so controversial that, she says, her Arabic publishers destroyed it under police duress. And recently her criticism of religion, primarily on the basis that it oppresses women, has prompted a flurry of court cases, including unsuccessful legal attempts both to strip her of her nationality and to forcibly dissolve her marriage.
Her site.
HT: Pharyngula
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