Latifa al-Zayyat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Latifa al-Zayyat

Egyptian activist

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1923

Place of Birth: Damietta, Damietta Governorate, Egypt

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1996

Profession: writer, translator, university teacher

Nationality: Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Latifa al-Zayyat (Arabic: ????? ???????) (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.