![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ensuing discourse has touched on themes including how formative her work was, whether it still applies to the current moment, the effectiveness of individual struggle, and, most notably, how we can reconcile our need for political heroes with the fact that our intellectual role models may occasionally disappoint us. It is fitting that the news of El Saadawi’s death, and the subsequent flood of articles, posts, and tweets that were written in commemoration, were as controversial and complex as the life she lived. A self-proclaimed “historical, socialist feminist,” El Saadawi lived a long and politically courageous life-a life in which she experienced imprisonment, job loss, censorship, and death threats, and over whose course, El Saadawi also erred and adopted arguably disappointing positions. It is a privilege to grapple with her legacy, to confront the contradictions and challenges raised by the issues she wrote about, issues that many of us in the Arab world wouldn’t have had the courage to think and speak about were it not for her work. ![]() The recent death of Nawal El Saadawi’s has caused reverberations in Egypt, the Arab world, and beyond. The important thing is how to live until you die. ![]()
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