Popular protests against the regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
began in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Women were prominent (despite violence against them). NES
appeared as a protestor in international news reports.
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Khaleeli, Homa. “Nawal El Saadawi”. Guardian.co.uk, 8 Mar. 2011.
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Nawal El Saadawi
In April 2011 NES
published an article in The Guardian entitled New song of Egypt's elite—who, she said, were just as willing to sing the praises of the revolution as they previously sang...
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Nawal El Saadawi
Here she argues that like so many in history before it the Egyptian revolution failed to achieve its idealistic and populist aims, that the fall of Hosni Mubarak
did not unseat his patriarchal regime or...
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11 February 2011: Following protests which had begun on 24...
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11 February 2011
Following protests which had begun on 24 January, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
was deposed. The situation in Egypt, however, continued to be no less volatile.
