Nawal El-Saadawi

Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Education in Cairo, she was summarily dismissed from her post in 1972 for her political writing and activities. Meer

Surrounded by a coterie of ministers, the Imam rules over an imaginary earthly kingdom.

Bint Allah is the Daughter of God, a beautiful illegitimate girl. Meer

Well beyond the Arab world, El Saadawi's fiction and non-fiction work, from Woman at Point Zero to The Fall of the Imam to her prison memoirs, have earned her a reputation as a refreshing voice of feminism in the Arab World. Meer