Name: The Hidden Face of Eve
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Nawal El Sadawi

Women in the Arab World

The Hidden Face of Eve

Nawal El Saadawi

Chourouk

I am in love with the dissident that is Nawal El Saadawi. Her critical thinking and the way she finds connections and links between social phenomenons is so avant garde, especially when you know that this book was published in 1977! All in all, this book helped me understand some of my own struggles as an Arab North African woman.

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.

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