Formerly head of the women's program of the United Nations in Africa, and of the women's program for the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia, she rose to become director of public health in Egypt, but was dismissed from her post in 1972 when her book ''Women and Sex'' was published. Saadawi has fallen into severe disfavor in her own country. Nawal El Saadawi - a 50-year-old Egyptian doctor, novelist and feminist - has written many books about this woman. She had been circumcised at the age of 6 that is, her clitoris had been surgically removed from her body. TEN years ago in Cairo I met an Egyptian woman of whom I recall the following: She was 35 years old, handsomely dressed, spoke three foreign languages fluently, worked as a bilingual researcher, had lived five years in Toronto with her engineer husband also, she had been married off by her father at 16, had four children by the age of 22 and was kept housebound by her husband, who was otherwise kind and worthy of her affection and of whom she remarked sadly, ''I know that my husband will not take four wives, but the fact that under the law he is permitted to do so colors his emotions, and mine.'' One last thing about this woman. THE HIDDEN FACE OF EVE Women in the Arab World.
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