Review
God Dies by the Nile 'Powerfully political' - Poetry Nation Review The Hidden Face of Eve; Women in the Arab World 'The Arab world's leading feminist and iconoclast' - Fedwa Malti-Davis 'The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab world' - The Guardian 'The most recognisable name in Egyptian and Middle Eastern feminism - poignant, penetrating yet simple' - Library Journal The Nawal El Saadawi Reader 'Throughout her writing she sheds new light on the power of women in resistance - against poverty, racism, fundamentalism and inequality of all kinds' - The Middle East A Daughter of Isis; The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi ... The author fought injustice all her life, suceeded in becoming a doctor... then a writer. In our culture women?s education was fought for by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers; reading this we are reminded not to take our good fortune for granted. This is a book we should all be reading..." - Doris Lessing "As I finished reading Dr. Nawal's autobiography I felt a sudden sense of loss. I didn't want to leave her. I went back and read the last sections again, and then again, until I remembered how many other books she has written. Then I felt delight that I will be able to return to her words and to her stories, and that so many others will share in them." - Bettina Aptheker The Circling Song "Without doubt the most prominent and prolific female author in the Arabic language. Dr. Nawal al-Saadawi has the uncanny ability to place her finger on the hot buttons that inflame Arab readers." - Fedwa Malti-Douglas Walking through Fire; A Life of Nawal El Saadawi 'El Saadawi's poetic prose and searing details keep the pages alive with stories of triumph, dissent, death and disappointment' - San Francisco Chronicle
Product Description
The writing of Nawal el Saadawi is essential. Her dissident voice has consistently critiqued neo-imperialist international politics coupled with the oppression of women both in her native Egypt and in the world beyond. This book, the first volume in "Zed's Essential Feminists" series, gathers a selection of the whole range of Saadawi's writing together in one volume for the first time. From fiction -- novellas and short stories -- to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex, from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist, from poetry to selections of her travel writing, this book will be essential to anyone wishing to gain a sense of the total range of Saadawi's work.
