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‘I had to study medicine to get rid of it. I have to know politics in order to challenge politics’.
There’s something quite ironic in Nawal El Saadawi openly challenging the same structures of professionalism she was educated by.
And yet the psychiatrist and self-described feminist does not shy away from its truth. In fact she believes it necessary when challenging the class patriarchy that oppresses the majority—particularly women in society. Saadawi qualified as a doctor in 1955 and rose to become Egypt’s Director of Public Health.
Her first work of non-fiction Women and Sex (1972), evoked theological and political authorities and pressured the Ministry of Health to dismiss her:
The main reason why I was fired from the Ministry of Health was that I was trying with some young doctors, at the time, to connect health with politics; to connect sexual oppression with political and economic oppression, fighting against male/female circumcision.
Saadawi also lost her post as