Casa Árabe and the Tres Culturas Foundation held a four-voice conversation with Nawal El-Saadawi (Egypt), a writer and feminist militant; Wassyla Tamzali (Algeria), a specialist on gender-related topics, Nieves Paradela (Spain), a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Eva Lapiedra (Spain), a professor at the University of Alicante.
This round table discussion analyzed the changes and developments in the Arab world’s feminist movements as of the final decades of the twentieth century, with a special focus on Egypt and Algeria. It also dealt with the current situation in the fight for women’s rights, after developments in the social and civil movements over the last five years, coupled with the complex situation through which many of today’s Arab societies are living.
