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The Essential Nawal El Saadawi

A Reader

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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The Essential Nawal El Saadawi

A Reader

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848139020

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9781848139022

The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

God Resigns and Isis

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

God Resigns and Isis

By: Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi's most recent play, God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadawi with insulting the "Almighty God", not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to Egypt and her Egyptian nationality be revoked. In the play, the prophets and great women gather for a meeting with God. Satan arrives to tender his resignation but neither Jesus, nor Mohammad, nor Moses are willing to replace him. Finally, God himself resigns. The second play in this collection is Isis, a critique of the discriminatory rules that control women, the daughters of Isis. Both God Resigns and Isis incorporate key themes to El Saadawi's work: that all religions are inimical to women and the poor, that the oppression of women is reprehensible and not uniquely characteristic of the Middle East or the ''Third World'', and that free speech is fundamental to any society. "El Saadawi writes with directness and passion" New York Times Book Review 'A poignant and brave writer' Marie Claire 'The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World' Guardian 'More than any other woman, El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism.' San Francisco Chronicle

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Saqi

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0863568122

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9780863568121

Nawal El Saadawi

Der Tag, an dem Mubarak der Prozess gemacht wurde(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 048)

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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Der Tag, an dem Mubarak der Prozess gemacht wurde(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 048)

By: Nawal El Saadawi

In einer selbstreflexiven Erzählung hinterfragt die ägyptische Autorin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin Nawal El Saadawi den Bedeutungsunterschied zwischen»Geburtsort« und »Heimatland« an einem kontroversen Ort wie dem zeitgenössischen Kairo. Sie verwebt persönliche Kindheitserinnerungen mit dem sich wandelnden politischen Klima in Ägypten und generationsübergreifenden gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen, wie sie sich aktuell entwickelt haben. Die kürzlich stattgefundene Gerichtsverhandlung gegen Mubarak und ihre persönlichen Wahrnehmungen und Gefühle, als sie diese im Fernsehen verfolgte, bilden die Kulisse für El Saadawis Notizbuchbeitrag. In einer literarischen Drehung setzt die Autorin den defekten Fernseher in ihrem Haus, der die Gerichtsverhandlung Mubaraks überträgt, als Metapher ein und beschreibt die verschiedenen präsidentschaftlichen Regime im Laufe der Zeit, wobei sie gleichzeitig ihre eigenen Wahrnehmungsverschiebungen von Schuldgefühlen hin zu »kindlicher, unerklärlicher Hoffnung« offen legt. El Saadawi zeigt die Gerichtsverhandlung als ein Schauspiel, das von den Medien und Drehbuchautoren gelenkt wird und erweitert die Erzählung durch Motive wie Herkunft, Zeit, Liebe und die Schwierigkeit, das eigene Lebenswerk durch Schreiben festzuhalten. Nawal El Saadawi (*1931) ist eine ägyptische feministische Autorin, Romanschriftstellerin, Aktivistin, Ärztin und Psychiaterin; sie lebt in Kairo. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch/Arabisch

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Hatje Cantz Verlag

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377573077X

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9783775730778

The Innocence of the Devil

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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The Innocence of the Devil

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520216520

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9780520216525

Woman at Point Zero

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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Woman at Point Zero

By: Nawal El Saadawi

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand. And because I am a prostitute, I hid my fear under layers of make-up." --ExcerptThis is a new edition of the best-selling novel with a specially commissioned new Foreword by Miriam Cooke.

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132

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Zed Books

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1842778730

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9781842778739

The Fall of the Imam

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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The Fall of the Imam

By: Nawal El Saadawi

Bint Allah knows herself only as the Daughter of God. Born in a stifling male-dominated state, ruled by the Imam and his coterie of ministers, she dreams of one day reaching the top of a distant hill visible through the bars of the orphanage window. But Bint Allah's ambitions do not escape the attention of the Imam, who never feels secure no matter how well he protects himself. When the Imam falsely accuses Bint Allah of adultery and sentences her to death by stoning, he is not prepared for what happens next. A postmodern fantasia, this powerful and poetic novel is a call to arms against those who use religion as a weapon against women.

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185

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Saqi

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1846591392

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9781846591396

Diary of a Child Called Souad

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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Diary of a Child Called Souad

By: Nawal El Saadawi

Diary of a Child Called Souad is Nawal El Saadawi's first autobiography, written at the age of ten in the form of fiction as she explores her early awakening to the world around her. Now known for her bold spirit and probing mind, El Saadawi in this novel uncovers through a child's eyes the hypocritical values and traditions carried on by family, education, religion, and society. With amazing courage she weaves a tale of the fear, guilt, and repressive compliance forced upon her as a woman and upon her generation as the price to be paid for leading a civilized existence. Struggling to come to terms with taboos concerning her maturing body, the young Nawal's writing reveals the makings of a revolutionary spirit and relentlessly analytical mind. A must read for devotees of El Saadawi's writing to witness an early record of the maturing of her thoughts and the shaping of her ideas.

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173

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Springer

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113758730X

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9781137587305

Walking through Fire

The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words

By: Nawal El Saadawi

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The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words

By: Nawal El Saadawi

In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women. Walking through Fire takes up the story of her extraordinary life. Famous for her novels, short stories and writings on women, Saadawi is known as the first Arab woman to have written 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, nationality, race or religion. This autobiography shows the passion for justice that has shaped her life and her writing. We read about her as a rural doctor, trying to help a young girl escape from a terrible fate imposed on her by a brutal male tyranny. We follow her attempts to set up women's organizations and to publish magazines later banned by the authorities or endangered by fundamentalist threats. We travel with her into exile after the publication of her name on a death list. We witness her first marriage to a freedom fighter hounded into drug addiction by a system that has no mercy. We share her struggle against her 'false self' and a second husband who offers her financial security and comfort - provided she stops writing. We live the beautiful moments of her third marriage with a man released after fourteen years of imprisonment and hard labour - their love, companionship and shared struggle. Nawal El Saadawi has carved a place for herself in the universal struggle against oppression. 'Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives', she says. 'They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1848132301

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9781848132306

Book's by Nawal El Saadawi

The Essential Nawal El Saadawi

The Essential Nawal El Saadawi

The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi

The Innocence of the Devil

The Innocence of the Devil

Woman at Point Zero

Woman at Point Zero

The Fall of the Imam

The Fall of the Imam

Diary of a Child Called Souad

Diary of a Child Called Souad

Walking through Fire

Walking through Fire

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