Google payed its respect to the late novelist, activist and scholar Latifa Al Zayyat on what would have been her 92nd birthday Saturday by creating a doodle of the much beloved and idolized individual.

One of her most famous works is the "Open Doors" chronicles which tells the story of political unrest in Cairo and the Suez Crisis during 1946 and 1956. The novel, which was translated into various languages due to its surprising success and turned into a popular film, also talks about the sexual awakening of the main character, Layla – a topic that is rarely discussed in the country.

Zayyat was born in Dumyat, Egypt, in 1923 and went on to earn her bachelors degree from the Cairo University and earned her PhD in 1957. Zayyat didn't stop there, and along with her friend Inji Efflatoun, she went on to found The League of University Institutes For Young Women in 1945.

The Egyptian activist and novelist won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her novel "The open Door." However to this day, the celebrated writer remains unknown to many of today's youth, especially Egyptians. This makes the Google doodle even greater; it resurrected the image and revived the interest to celebrate not only Egyptians, but Egyptian women who have contributed positively to their homeland.

In our weekly installment of Clients from Hell, a hilarious collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers, we present “When the client is sexist” For previous posts, click here .

I am a project manager and designer at a design and marketing firm.  As a preface, I am one of only two women in the entire office. We were trying to set up time to do two separate video shoots with a client: One was a testimonial for us, another was a promo for his business.

The idea was to shoot both at the same time if possible, so I emailed him and I asked what date and time would work best for him.  He replied back saying he wanted to do this week after 5 p.m. since he was busy during the day.  Due to the late time of day, the video department made the recommendation that we just do the testimonial, because with both setup and takedown time we wouldn’t have enough daylight to do both. I relayed this to him and asked to set up a later date to do the promo video.  This was his reply (bad grammar and spelling intact):

Client: Sure sounds good. Will see your team tomorrow. Let your boss know there’s no reason we can’t do both at the same time on the same setting. Don’t understand your logic in the two separate times and dates for both videos. You’re still a cutie anyway.

Apparently my lady brain isn’t logical enough to know why separate 3-hour-long shoots make sense but at least I’m still “cute.”