The magazine, Health, which she had founded and edited for more than three years, was closed down.įrom 1973 to 1978 Saadawi worked at the High Institute of Literature and Science. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a result of political pressure. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla.įrom 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo.
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