从十九世纪末阿拉伯文学步人现代复兴开始,阿拉伯文坛一直活跃着女作家的身影。她们要求赋予女性接受教育、参与社会文化活动的权利,呼吁以时代精神诠释宗教、破除借宗教之名强制推行的陈规陋习。身为阿拉伯女作家群体中的一员,纳娃勒·赛阿达维也有着同样的诉求,但她和许多阿拉伯女作家又有不同,阿尔及利亚小说家、翻译家阿茜亚·杰巴尔这样总结:“赛阿达维从不抱怨,从不哭诉,她只会犀利地批判。”美籍黎巴嫩裔作家、诗人、法学教授法德娃·玛尔蒂·道格拉斯则指出:“在赛阿达维手中, From the beginning of the 19th century into the modern era of humanistic rejuvenation of Arabic literature, the Arab literature has been active in the figure of a woman writer. They demanded that women should be given the right to receive education and take part in social and cultural activities. They called for the interpretation of religion in the spirit of the times and the elimination of stereotypes that are forced by religion. As a member of the Arab women’s writers group, Navale Syadavi also has the same appeal, but she is different from many Arab women writers, as Algerian Jebbal, a novelist and translator of Algerian literature, concludes: ”Sayadawi never complained that she would only criticize sharply when she was not crying.“ ”Fawcett Martha Douglas, an American-born Lebanese writer and poet and professor of law, points out:" In the Syadavi Hands,