Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781856495141
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.
Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1848139020
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.
Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781856496803
Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. In her life and in her writings, this struggle against sexual discrimination has always been linked to a struggle against all forms of oppression: religious, racial, colonial and neo-colonial. In 1969, she published her first work of non-fiction, Women and Sex ; in 1972, her writings and her struggles led to her dismissal from her job. From then on there was no respite; imprisonment under Sadat in 1981 was the culmination of the long war she had fought for Egyptian women's social and intellectual freedom. A Daughter of Isis is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman.
Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780862321109
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.
Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2020-03-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780863563553
New edition of classic novel about motherhood and resilience, set against the backdrop of revolution in Egypt, by the leading Arab feminist writer
Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0863567282
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.
Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
“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.
Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1998-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520216525
Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful denunciation of patriarchy in its many forms: social, political, and religious. Set in an insane asylum, The Innocence of the Devil is a complex and chilling novel that recasts the relationships of God and Satan, of good and evil. Intertwining the lives of two young women as they discover their sexual and emotional powers, Saadawi weaves a dreamlike narrative that reveals how the patriarchal structures of Christianity and Islam are strikingly similar: physical violation of women is not simply a social or political phenomenon, it is a religious one as well. While more measured in tone than Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Saadawi's novel is similar in its linguistic, literary, and philosophical richness. Evoking a world of pain and survival that may be unfamiliar to many readers, it speaks in a universal voice that reaches across cultures and is the author's most potent weapon.
Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780862322953
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?"
Author : Georges Tarabishi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Arabic fiction
ISBN : 9780863560828
A critique of the work of Egyptian feminist, Nawal el-Saadawi. This work argues that the feminists of her novels, far from being shining examples of liberated womanhood, have unconsciously absorbed a male ideology that actually works against the interests of women.
