You are invited to a free public conference featuring internationally renowned human rights' activist, author & feminist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi on the topic:
The Paradox of our Post Modern World; Politics, Religion, Sexuality & Creative Dissidence (to be followed by a discussion period).
Date: July 6, 2009
Place: Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Ave. (corner Tupper), upstairs auditorium
Time: 7:00 sharp
Dr. Nawal El Saadawi is an Egyptian medical doctor, a prolific writer, philosopher, international speaker, university professor and outspoken critic of blind fundamentalism. Her novels & books have been translated to thirty languages. Her most famous novel is "The Hidden Face of Eve," published in 1980. She has received several literary prizes and honourary doctoral degrees, from various universities around the world. On account of her writing on political & sexual taboos, she lost her position at the Ministry of Health in Egypt. She was exposed to different types of oppression, including prison, exile and the banning of her books. She was accused of heresy by Al Azhar University but she won all the court cases brought against her. In 2008/9, she taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, USA. She continues to write and struggle for justice and freedom locally and globally.
For more information, please call Nadia Alexan, founder of Citizens in Action, at: (514) 846-0644 or e-mail: nadia.alexan@sympatico.ca
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