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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." --Excerpt

Woman at Point Zero

المرأة والجنس

'An unforgettable, unmissable book for the new global feminist.' The Times 'All the men I did get to know filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.' So begins Firdaus's remarkable story of rebellion against a society founded on lies, hypocrisy, brutality and oppression. Born to a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside, Firdaus struggles through childhood, seeking compassion and knowledge in a world which gives her little of either. As she grows up and escapes the fetters of her childhood, each new relationship teaches her a bitter but liberating truth – that the only free people are those who want nothing, fear nothing and hope for nothing. This classic novel has been an inspiration to countless people across the world. Saadawi's searing indictment of society's brutal treatment of women continues to resonate today.

مذكرات طبيبة

مذكراتي في سجن النساء

This powerful account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering. She goes on explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Saadawi argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the essence of Islam or any human faith. This edition, complete with a new foreword, lays claim to The Hidden Face of Eve's status as a classic of modern Arab writing.

Women in the Arab World

The Hidden Face of Eve

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.

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

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?

God Dies by the Nile

الإله يقدم إستقالته في إجتماع القمة

المرأة والصراع النفسي

Sıfır noktasındaki kadın

امرأتان في امرأة

Provides an account of the author's twenty-two day term in a women's prison in Egypt, where she was held on charges of attacking the ruling system, and where she stayed until President Sadat was assassinated

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

Egyptian novelist, doctor, and militant writer of Arab women's struggles, Saadawi recounts her life since she was born and describes her work as a physician, the publishing of her first books, and her incarceration and exile.

The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi

A Daughter of Isis

«وأدركتُ أنني تخلصتُ من آخر قطرة من القُدسية في دمي، وأصبح عقلي واعيًا بالحقيقة، حقيقة أنني أفضِّل أن أكون مومسًا عن أكون أكون قديسة مخدوعة» ساقت الصدفة «نوال السعداوي» لتكون على موعدٍ مع امرأة لم تستسغ سيطرة المجتمع الذكوري على مقدَّراتها. وكأن القدَر أراد أن يُخلِّد هذه البطلة بتربُّعها على عرش إحدى أشهر روايات المؤلفة. بداخل زنزانة صغيرة في سجن النساء تقبع امرأةٌ تعسة على موعدٍ مع الموت بعد ساعات قليلة. امرأة تكسَّر فيها كل شيء، واختارت الموت ليكون سبيل نجاتها، لتعود بحياتها عند نقطة الصفر. على أعتاب الموت، وقبل أن تتحرَّر «فردوس» من جسدها وتُسلِم روحها لخالقها، تروي ﻟ «نوال السعداوي» قصة امرأة تلاعبت بها الأقدار، وساقها الرجال إلى مصيرها المحتوم؛ ففي مجتمع ذكوري مريض، الرجل فيه هو كل شيء والأنثى لا شيء تقريبًا؛ حيث تُجسِّد الرواية تملُّك الذكور للسلطة والثروة والشهوة، بينما تكون الأنثى أداةً طيِّعةً لنَيْل شهوته وتحقيق ثرائه وإرضاء السُّلطة. تحتل الرواية مكانةً خاصة لدى المؤلفة التي ينتابها الخجل أمام شموخ بطلتها، وعلى الصعيد الروائي اختيرت ضمن قائمة ١٠٠١ الخاصة بتطور الرواية عبر الزمان، وتُرجمت إلى ٤٠ لغة.

امرأة عند نقطة الصفر

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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