A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, in Her Own Words by Saadawi, Nawal El

A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, in Her Own Words (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780755651566)

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A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, in Her Own Words by Saadawi, Nawal El

A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, in Her Own Words

$19.95
A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, in Her Own Words by Saadawi, Nawal El

A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, in Her Own Words

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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 and 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.

Author: Nawal El Saadawi
ISBN-10: 0755651561
ISBN-13: 9780755651566
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2024
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.08w x 1.00d
By Nawal El Saadawi
By Nawal El Saadawi
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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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