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A Daughter of Isis
The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
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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 about her...
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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 about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old, and escaping suitors at ten. We follow her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine.
Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780755651566
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 325g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Nawal El Saadawi was born in a village outside Cairo, Egypt, in 1931. A trained medical doctor, she wrote landmark works on the oppression of Arab women including Woman at Point Zero (1973), God Dies by the Nile (1976) and The Hidden Face of Eve (1977). After being imprisoned by Anwar Sadat’s government for criticising the regime, she founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association in 1982, before being forced into exile in later life due to death threats by religious extremists. She returned to Egypt in 1996, running for president in 2005 until government persecution forced her to withdraw. Saadawi died in Egypt in 2021.
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