Latifa al-Zayyat

Latifa al-Zayyat
Born(1923-08-08)8 August 1923
Dumyat, Kingdom of Egypt
Died10 September 1996(1996-09-10) (aged 73)
Cairo, Egypt
Alma materCairo University
Known for

Latifa al-Zayyat (Arabic: لطيفة الزيات, romanized: Laṭīfah al-Zayyāt; 8 August 1923 – 10 September 1996) was an Egyptian activist and writer, most famous for her novel The Open Door, which won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.

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