Egyptian novelist, essayist and physician, whose feminist works have widened the boundaries of the Arab novel. Nawal El Saadawi's central theme is the oppression of women and womens' desire for self-expression.
Writers.net - Egypt Listing of selected authors, writers, editors and publishers in Egypt.
Wikipedia - Naguib Mahfouz Information about Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature and who managed to modernize Arabic literature.
Taha Hussein From the Future of Culture in Egypt, 1954.
