Nawal el Saadawi – writer and activist

Pod Academy by Pod Academy

Mar 23, 202114:44Education

The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Right Organisation for Pod Academy. We reprod...

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