- Psychiatrist, public servant and feminist author.
- She received a degree in medicine from Cairo University and worked as a doctor, eventually specializing in psychiatry. She became director of public health for the Egyptian government, but was dismissed in 1972 after publishing her non-fiction book, Women and Sex, which condemned female genital mutilation and oppression of women.
- Had eight siblings.
- Founder and President of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights.
- Founder of the Health Education Association.
- In 2005 she won the Inana International Prize in Belgium.
- Chief Editor of Health Magazine in Cairo.
- Her father was a government official in the Egyptian Ministry of Education and anti-British activist.
- In 2012, the International Peace Bureau awarded her the 2012 Seán MacBride Peace Prize.
- Founder of the Egyptian Women Writers' Association.
- Editor of Medical Association Magazine.
- In 2004 she won the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe.
- Founder of feminist magazine "Al-Moawgaha" ("The Confrontation").
- From 1973 to 1976 she worked on researching women and neurosis in Ain Shams University's Faculty of Medicine.
- She taught at Duke University's Asian and African Languages Department, the University of Washington, Cairo University, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Sorbonne, Georgetown, Florida State University and the University of California-Berkeley.
- From 1979 to 1980 she was the United Nations Advisor for the Women's Programme in Africa (ECA) and the Middle East (ECWA).
- Her earliest writings include a selection of short stories entitled I Learned Love (1957) and her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor (1958).
- Author of "Women & Sex", "Memoirs From A Women's Prison" and "Woman At Point Zero".
- Mother of Atef Hetata.
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