परिचय
जन्म : 27 अक्टूबर 1931, मिस्र
भाषा : अरबीविधाएँ : चिकित्सा, स्त्री-विमर्श, उपन्यास, कहानी, नाटक, संस्मरणमुख्य कृतियाँ
The Hidden Face Of Eve : Women In the Arab World, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Searching, The Death of the Only Man in the World, Woman at Point Zero, The Circling Song, Death of an Ex-Minister, She Has No Place in Paradise, Two Women in One, The Fall of the Imam, Memoirs from the Women's Prison, The Innocence of the Devil, Love in the Kingdom of Oil, The Novel, A Daughter of Isis, I Learnt Love, A Moment of Truth, Little Tenderness, The Thread and the Wall, She was the Weaker, Twelve Women in a Cell, My Travels Around the World, Memoirs of a Child Called Soad, My Life (Part I, Part II, Part III), Women and Sex, Woman is the Origin, Men and Sex, The Naked Face of Arab Women, Women and Neurosis, On Women, A New Battle in Arab Women Liberation,Collection of Essays, Breaking Down Barriers
सम्मान
Honorary Doctorate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2007), Honorary Doctorate, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (2007), Honorary Doctorate, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico (2010), Stig Dagerman Prize (2011)