The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, condoled the death of the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi, who died on Sunday at the age of 90, after a lifetime spent advocating for wone’s rights and equality.

"My condolences to the Egyptian people and our Arab nation on the death of Nawal Al-Saadawi. May God have mercy on her and reward her with paradise”, Tawakkol Karman said in a condolence statement on her official Twitter page. 

She died in a Cairo hospital after a long battle against illness, leaving behind more than 55 books. 

El Saadawi, born in October 1931 in north of Cairo, studied medicine at Cairo University and New York’s Columbia University. 

She was well-known for her campaigns against women wearing the veil, polygamy and “inequality” regarding “inheritance rights” between men and women.