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      God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels

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      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…

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      The Hidden Face of Eve

      Nawal El Saadawi

      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.

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      Walking through Fire

      Nawal El Saadawi

      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…

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      A Daughter of Isis

      Nawal El Saadawi

      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…

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      Woman at Point Zero

      Nawal El Saadawi

      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…

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      Zeina

      Nawal El-Saadawi

      Bodour, a distinguished literary critic and university professor, carries with her a dark secret. As a young university student she gives birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, who she abandons…

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      Walking through Fire

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      Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi has been imprisoned, exiled and threatened with death for her writings on Arab women. This is her story of a life spent in resistance and…

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      The Nawal El Saadawi Reader

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      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.

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      The Nawal El Saadawi Reader

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      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.

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      The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

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      Offers introductions to the two plays God Resigns and Isis , which develop key themes of Nawal El Saadawi’s work: that religions are inimical to women and the poor; that…

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      The Essential Nawal El Saadawi: A Reader

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      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…

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      The Essential Nawal El Saadawi: A Reader

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      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…

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      Two Women in One

      Nawal El-Saadawi

      Two Women in One is the story of countless women in the Third World, their hopes and ambitions, and their quest for emancipation and dignity.

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      The Fall of the Imam

      Nawal El-Saadawi

      Surrounded by a coterie of ministers, the Imam rules over an imaginary earthly kingdom. Bint Allah is the Daughter of God, a beautiful illegitimate girl. She is falsely accused by…

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      Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

      Nawal el Saadawi

      New edition of bestselling novel from Egypt’s foremost feminist and award-winning author, based on her own experience

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      Zeina

      Nawal El Saadawi

      A brave and haunting novel about motherhood and resilience, set against the backdrop of Egyptian’s revolution by Egypt’s foremost feminist writer and activist

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      The Fall of the Imam

      Nawal El Saadawi

      A postmodern fantasia, this powerful and poetic novel is a call to arms against those who use religion as a weapon against women.

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      Love in the Kingdom of Oil

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      New edition of classic novel by Egypt’s foremost feminist author

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      Diary of a Child Called Souad

      Nawal El Saadawi

      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…

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      Memoirs from the Women’s Prison

      Nawal El-Saadawi

      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…

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      A Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi

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      Nawal El Saadawi has been censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppression imposed on women by gender and class. This Egyptian activist’s story shows how she…

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      Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

      Nawal El-Saadawi

      Rebelling against the constraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. After a brief and unhappy…

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      Diary of a Child Called Souad

      Nawal El Saadawi

      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…

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      Memoirs from the Women’s Prison

      Nawal El Saadawi

      Memoirs from the Women’s Prison is an unforgettable, landmark work of prison writing that offers a rare insight into the indomitable, soaring literary mind of the Arab world’s leading feminist.

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      Diary of a Child Called Souad

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      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…

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      Memoirs of a Woman Doctor: a Novel

      Nawal El Saadawi

      Rebelling against the constraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. After a brief and unhappy…

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      Off Limits: New Essays on Sin and Fear

      Nawal El-Saadawi,Nariman Youssef

      This series of essays form a selection of El Saadawi’s most recent musings, memories and reflections, considering the role of women in Egyptian and wider Islamic society, the inextricability of…

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      Men, Women, and Gods: Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics

      Fedwa Malti-Douglas

      This is a study of the Arab world’s leading femininst and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. The book contends that her work cannot be read in isolation from…

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      The Circling Song

      Nawal El Saadawi

      With a precise and hypnotic intensity, Nawal El Saadawi pursues the conflicts of sex, class, gender and military violence deep into the psyche.

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      Love in the Kingdom of Oil

      Nawal El-Saadawi

      A woman disappears without trace. The investigating policeman enquires: was she of dubious morals? Nobody understands how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all…

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      The Novel

      Nawal el Saadawi

      The novel caused tremendous outrage. So begins Nawal El Saadawi’s tenth novel. And indeed, when the famous Egyptian psychiatrist and writer released The Novel in 2005, it was banned all…

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      Two Women in One

      Nawal El Saadawi

      Two Women in One tells the powerful story of a modern Middle Eastern woman’s quest for emancipation and dignity.

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      Searching

      Nawal El Saadawi

      Fouada meets Farid, her lover, every Tuesday in a restaurant overlooking the Nile. But this week their usual table is deserted. Farid has disappeared. As she searches for him, Fouada…

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      Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

      Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology…

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      Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

      Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology…

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      Plays by Mediterranean Women

      Nawal El Saadawi,Miriam Kainy

      A collection of astonishing plays by women from countries geographically linked but politically divided. It provided the impetus for an international conference on women playwrights at Tel Aviv University in…

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      Men, Women, and Gods

      Fedwa Malti-Douglas

      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…

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      Literary Crossroads: An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood

      This book covers a variety of women’s issues from different parts of the world. It also expresses various themes of oppression, marginalization, sexism, gender, and emancipation of women, showing that…

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