Musings: The Creative Dissident

NAWAL El Saadawis hair is whiter than driven snow and yet her energy is as bright and fresh as the Spring air.She has the charm and warmth of everybodys favorite aunt or grandmother and yet as the words tumble out of her mouth during her keynote speech at the opening of the Women Playwrights International conference recently in Jakarta, one is quickly aware that this is no feisty old lady bemoaning the state of the worl