ايزيس

Egyptian feminist writer, physician, psychiatrist and activist. She earned her MD from Cairo University in 1955 and an MPH from Columbia University in 1966, working as a physician and later as director-general of health education within Egypt's ministry of health until her 1972 dismissal over her book Women and Sex. In 1982 she founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, and in 1981 she was imprisoned for two months under President Anwar Sadat for her writing and activism, during which she...