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The Essential Nawal El Saadawi

The Essential Nawal El Saadawi
Author: Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1848139020

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The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are essential to anyone wishing to understand the contemporary Arab world. Her dissident voice has stayed as consistent in its critique of neo.imperialist international politics as it has in its denunciation of women's oppression, both in her native Egypt and in the wider world. Saadawi is a figure of international significance, and her work has a central place in Arabic history and culture of the last half century. Featuring work never before translated into English, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawi's writing. From novellas and short stories to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex; from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist; from poetry to autobiography, this book is essential for anyone wishing to gain a sense of the breadth of Saadawi's work.


Woman at Point Zero

Woman at Point Zero
Author: Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1983
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780862321109

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So begins Firdaus' story, leading to her grimy Cairo prison cell, where she welcomes her death sentence as a relief from her pain and suffering. Born to a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside, Firdaus suffers a childhood of cruelty and neglect. Her passion for education is ignored by her family, and on leaving school she is forced to marry a much older man. Following her escapes from violent relationships, she finally meets Sharifa who tells her that 'A man does not know a woman's value ... the higher you price yourself the more he will realise what you are really worth' and leads her into a life of prostitution. Desperate and alone, she takes drastic action. -- Publisher description.


The Nawal El Saadawi Reader

The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
Author: Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781856495141

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This collection portrays the intellectual and political development of an extraordinary thinker who explores a host of topics including women's oppression under recent interpretations of Islam and the subversive potential of creativity.


A Daughter of Isis

A Daughter of Isis
Author: Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2024-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0755651588

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In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.


Walking Through Fire

Walking Through Fire
Author: Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781842770771

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Famous for her novels, short stories and writings on women, Saadawi is known as the first Arab woman to write about sex and its relation to economics and politics. Imprisoned under Sadat for her opinions, she has continued to fight against all forms of discrimination based on class, gender, nation, race or religion. In In a Daughter of Isis, she painted a portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fighter for freedom and the rights of women. This autobiography takes up the story of her extraordinary life.


Memoirs from the Women's Prison

Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Author: Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1994-11-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520088887

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"If Kafka had been a feminist, his prisoner might have had Nawal el Sa'adawi's feistiness, maybe, like her, he would have hoed a prison garden, led veiled and unveiled cellmates in rebellious calisthenics, strategized with a murderess to foil state illogic. This book gives me hope, even makes me laugh."—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Morning After


God Dies by the Nile

God Dies by the Nile
Author: Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780862322953

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Nawal el Saadawi's classic tale attempts to square Islam with a society in which women are respected as equals is as relevant today as ever. 'People have become corrupt everywhere. You can search in vain for Islam, or a devout Muslim. They no longer exist.' Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?"


Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Author: Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher: Saqi
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0863567231

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A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body. After years of denying her own desires, the doctor begins a series of love affairs that allow her to explore her sexuality – on her own terms.


Two Women In One

Two Women In One
Author: Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher: Saqi
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0863567282

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Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hard-working, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day sparks her journey of self-discovery and of the realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible.


The Novel

The Novel
Author: Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher: Interlink Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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“The novel caused tremendous outrage.” So begins Nawal El Saadawi’s tenth novel. And indeed, when the famous Egyptian psychiatrist and writer released The Novel in 2005, it was banned all over the Arab world. But the novel inside The Novel is by a young woman—a woman who is only 23 years old, who has “no family, no university degree, no national identity card,” whose name does not appear on this “lists of prominent women writers.” A woman, that is, whose biography is as unlike Saadawi’s own as possible, as if she has stripped herself of all the effects of her own worldly existence to explore something earlier, more elemental, than the political work for which she is so well known. In following the life of this young, unnamed, woman writer as it intersects with those of a famous writer named Rostum, his wife Carmen, and a poet called Miriam, El Saadawi gives us a deeply felt exploration of the nature of identity, of fame, of writing, and of freedom.