Preface - The Gift 1. Allah and McDonalds 2. The Cry in the Night 3. God Above, Husband Below 4. We Thank God for our Calamities 5. Flying with the Butterflies 6. Killing the Bridegroom 7. Daughter of the Sea 8. My Revolutionary Father 9. The Lost Servant-Girl 10. The Village of Forgotten Employees 11. God Hid Behind the Coat-Stand 12. The Ministry of Nauseation 13. Dreaming of Pianos 14. To the Circus 15. The Singing Man 16. The Whiskered Peasant 17. Uncles, Suitors and other Bloodsuckers 18. A Stove for my Mother 19. Coming to Cairo 20. The Long, Strong Bones of a Horse 21. Love and the Hideous Cat 22. Art Thieves 23. Mad Aunts and Abandoned Babies 24. The House of Desolation 25. The Secret Communist 26. Wasted Lives 27. Cholera, Ageing and Death 28. The Qur'an Betrayed 29. British English and Holy Arabic 30. The Name of Marx 31. The Brush of History Afterword - Living in Resistance
Beautifully repackaged, volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist.
Nawal El Saadawi was an internationally renowned writer, novelist and fighter for women’s rights both within Egypt and abroad. She held honorary doctorates from, among others, the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso as well as Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her many prizes and awards include the Premi Internacional Catalunya in 2003, the Council of Europe North–South Prize in 2004, the Women of the Year Award (UK) in 2011, the Sean MacBride Peace Prize (Ireland) in 2012, and the French National Order of Merit in 2013. Her books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide. They are taught in universities across the world.
In this book we see how, from an early age, Saadawi combines her
love of the Arabic language with her awareness of gender-based
oppression to create texts which are as subversive as they are
moving.
*Modern African Studies*
As I finished reading Dr. Nawal's autobiography I felt a sudden
sense of loss. I didn't want to leave her. I went back and read the
last sections again, and then again, until I remembered how many
other books she has written. Then I felt delight that I will be
able to return to her words and to her stories, and that so many
others will share in them.
*Bettina Aptheker*
This is a book we should all be reading
*Doris Lessing*
I think her life has been one long death threat. At a time when
nobody else was talking, she spoke the unspeakable.
*Margaret Atwood, BBC Imagine*
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