The Essential Nawal El Saadawi
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...
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
A collection of the non-fiction writing of Nawal el Saadawi, spanning feminism, religion, and the position of women in the Middle East and around the world.
Dramatic Literature of 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 "e;Almighty God...
Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi
In Nawal El Saadawi's play "God Resigns", the prophets and great women gather for a meeting with God. Satan arrives to tender his resignation, but neither Jesus, Mohammad, nor Moses is willing to replace him. Finally, God himself resigns...
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels
Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the Nile, Saadawi's dark parable of poverty, female exploitation, injustice and religi...
Men, Women, and Gods
Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil, El Saadawi ha...
Memoirs from the Women's Prison
In 1981, the celebrated author and activist Nawal el Saadawi was imprisoned by the Sadat regime in her native Egypt, for 'crimes against the state'. Through haunting and evocative prose, Saadawi here recounts how she and her fellow prisoners conti...
Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. In 1981 she was imprisoned by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State" and was not released until after his assassination. This book offers both first hand witnes...
Fall of the Imam
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 windo...
Love in the Kingdom of Oil
A woman disappears without trace. Nobody, including the police commissioner investigating the case, can understand how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in the Kingdom of Oil where His Majesty reigns supre...
Two Women in One
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,...
Woman at Point Zero
Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born into poverty in a rural Egyptian village, h...
Hidden Face of Eve
Passionate, powerful and thought-provoking, in The Hidden Face of Eve, leading feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi provides a shocking account of the oppression of women in the Arab world. Inspired by her experiences working as a doctor in rural Egyp...
Daughter of Isis
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn abou...
Walking through Fire
In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. Covering her life in Nasser's then...
Off Limits
Well beyond the Arab world, El Saadawi's fiction and non-fiction work, from Woman at Point Zero to The Fall of the Imam to her prison memoirs, have earned her a reputation as a refreshing voice of feminism in the Arab World. This series of essays ...
Zeina
Distinguished literary critic Bodour is trapped in a loveless marriage and carries with her a dark secret. She fell in love in her youth and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she abandoned on the streets of Cairo. Bodour doesn't ...
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
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 b...
Diary of a Child Called Souad
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. A must read for devotees of El Saadawi's writing to witness an e...
Revolutionsskrivarna
Revolutioner uppstår inte ur tomma intet. Även när alla förutsättningar finns där, så krävs det också att folket reser sig. I Nawal El Saadawis roman Revolutionsskrivarna får vi följa ett antal kvinnor, somliga fattiga, andra överklass, men med det gemensamt att de alla på olika sätt är viktiga i den kamp som leder fram till den egyptiska revolutionen. Allting börjar med att Fuada och Saadia släpps ur fängelset och vi får följa dem fram till dess att de deltar i demonstrationerna på Tahrirtorget. Vägen dit är både underhållande och sorglig, den går via äktenskap, barnafödande och protester och omges av diskussioner och tankar om demokrati, journalistik, korruption, litterärt skrivande, kreativitet och om kvinnans situation i Egypten. Revolutionsskrivarna är som en spegling av revolten; ibland fragmentarisk, ibland våldsam men framförallt en myllrande berättelse där olika röster krockar, vinglar till och bråkar med varandra för att slutligen smälta samman.
The Hidden Face of Eve
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 whic...
The Hidden Face of Eve
This powerful non-fiction 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 in...
Last Nahdawi
Taha Hussein (1889-1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures. A graduate of al-Azhar, Egypt's oldest university, a civil servant and public intellectual, and ultimately Egyptian Minister of Public Instruction, Hussein was central to key social a...
Den Stulna Romanen
Nawal El Saadawi skriver med kraft och känsla och tvekar inte att avslöja det förakt som den arabiska kvinnan ännu ibland behandlas med. I Den stulna romanen möter vi den faderlösa Zina som överges vid födseln av sin mor, Bodour. Hon växer upp som gatubarn, trots det blir hon tack vare sin begåvning och charm en sångerska som avgudas av alla. Men när Ahmad, ledare för en extremistgrupp, blir förälskad i Zina, vänder hennes lycka. Bodour å sin sida har aldrig hämtat sig från det hon gjorde. Efter att ha upplevt sitt livs kärlekshistoria med Zinas far, som dödades i fängelset, valde hon att ställa in sig i ledet, överge sin dotter och gifta sig med en man hon inte älskade. Att skriva på en roman är Bodours enda andningshål. Dessvärre misstänker hon att hennes man har stulit hennes roman eller är det bara inbillning? Hon får allt svårare att skilja verklighet från dröm. Med ett slagkraftigt poetiskt språk berättar Saadawi om den arabiska kvinnans kamp i ett samhälle som styrs av korrumperade religiösa maktmän."En omskakande och samtidigt poetisk skildring av livet i Egypten från 1950-talet till början av 1990-talet (...). Nawal El Saadawi är en stor Egyptisk författare, feminist och aktivist. Alla som är intresserade av litteratur och av demokrati och jämlikhet borde läsa henne."Mösstanten.se
