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Books by Nawal El-Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla. From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a result of political pressure. The magazine, Health, which she had founded and edited for more than three years, was closed down. From 1973 to 1978 Saadawi worked at the High Institute of Literature and Science. It was at this time that she began to write, in works of fiction and non-fiction, the books on the oppression of Arab women for which she has become famous. Her most famous novel, Woman at Point Zero was published in Beirut in 1973. It was followed in 1976 by God Dies by the Nile and in 1977 by The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. In 1981 Nawal El Saadawi publicly criticized the one-party rule of President Anwar Sadat, and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned. She was released one month after his assassination. In 1982, she established the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, which was outlawed in 1991. When, in 1988, her name appeared on a fundamentalist death list, she and her second husband, Sherif Hetata, fled to the USA, where she taught at Duke University and Washington State University. She returned to Egypt in 1996. In 2004 she presented herself as a candidate for the presidential elections in Egypt, with a platform of human rights, democracy and greater freedom for women. In July 2005, however, she was forced to withdraw her candidacy in the face of ongoing government persecution. Nawal El Saadawi has achieved widespread international recognition for her work. She holds honorary doctorates from the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso. Her many prizes and awards include the Great Minds of the Twentieth Century Prize, awarded by the American Biographical Institute in 2003, the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe and the Premi Internacional Catalunya in 2004 , and most recently she was the 2007 recipient in the US of The African Literature Association's Fonlon-Nichols Award, which is given annually to an African writer for excellence in creative writing and for contributions to the struggles for human rights and freedom of expression. . Her books have been translated into over 28 languages worldwide. They are taught in universities across the world. She now works as a writer, psychiatrist and activist. Her most recent novel, entitled Al Riwaya was published in Cairo in 2004.
Woman at Point Zero By Nawal El Saadawi
Woman at Point Zeroby Nawal El Saadawi
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The Hidden Face of Eve By Nawal El Saadawi
The Hidden Face of Eveby Nawal El Saadawi
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A Daughter of Isis By Nawal El Saadawi
A Daughter of Isisby Nawal El Saadawi
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$28.99
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Memoirs from the Women's Prison By Nawal El Saadawi
Memoirs from the Women's Prisonby Nawal El Saadawi
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$42.99
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Woman at Point Zero By Nawal El Saadawi
Woman at Point Zeroby Nawal El Saadawi
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor By Nawal el Saadawi
Memoirs of a Woman Doctorby Nawal el Saadawi
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Walking through Fire By Nawal El Saadawi
Walking through Fireby Nawal El Saadawi
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God Dies by the Nile By Nawal El Saadawi
God Dies by the Nileby Nawal El Saadawi
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Zeina By Nawal El Saadawi
Zeinaby Nawal El Saadawi
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The Fall of the Imam By Nawal El Saadawi
The Fall of the Imamby Nawal El Saadawi
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Off Limits By Nawal El-Saadawi
Off Limitsby Nawal El-Saadawi
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A Daughter of Isis By Nawal El Saadawi
A Daughter of Isisby Nawal El Saadawi
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The Hidden Face of Eve By Nawal El Saadawi
The Hidden Face of Eveby Nawal El Saadawi
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The Nawal El Saadawi Reader By Nawal El Saadawi
The Nawal El Saadawi Readerby Nawal El Saadawi
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Two Women in One By Nawal El Saadawi
Two Women in Oneby Nawal El Saadawi
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The Hidden Face of Eve By Nawal El Saadawi
The Hidden Face of Eveby Nawal El Saadawi
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The Fall of the Imam By Nawal El-Saadawi
The Fall of the Imamby Nawal El-Saadawi
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A Daughter of Isis By Nawal El Saadawi
A Daughter of Isisby Nawal El Saadawi
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Walking through Fire By Nawal El Saadawi
Walking through Fireby Nawal El Saadawi
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Love in the Kingdom of Oil By Nawal El-Saadawi
Love in the Kingdom of Oilby Nawal El-Saadawi
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Innocence of the Devil By Nawal El-Saadawi
Innocence of the Devilby Nawal El-Saadawi
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Walking through Fire By Nawal El Saadawi
Walking through Fireby Nawal El Saadawi
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Mujer en punto cero By Nawal El Saadawi
Mujer en punto ceroby Nawal El Saadawi
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Diary of a Child Called Souad By Nawal El Saadawi
Diary of a Child Called Souadby Nawal El Saadawi
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The Well of Life By Nawal El-Saadawi
The Well of Lifeby Nawal El-Saadawi
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She Has No Place in Paradise By Nawal El-Saadawi
She Has No Place in Paradiseby Nawal El-Saadawi
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She Has No Place in Paradise By Nawal El-Saadawi
She Has No Place in Paradiseby Nawal El-Saadawi
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God Dies By The Nile By Nawal El Saadawi
God Dies By The Nileby Nawal El Saadawi
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Memoirs from the Women's Prison By Nawal El-Saadawi
Memoirs from the Women's Prisonby Nawal El-Saadawi
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Zeina By Nawal El-Saadawi
Zeinaby Nawal El-Saadawi
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Woman at Point Zero By Nawal El Saadawi
Woman at Point Zeroby Nawal El Saadawi
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Searching By Nawal El Saadawi
Searchingby Nawal El Saadawi
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor By Nawal El Saadawi
Memoirs of a Woman Doctorby Nawal El Saadawi
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Death of an Ex-minister By Nawal El-Saadawi
Death of an Ex-ministerby Nawal El-Saadawi
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor By Nawal El-Saadawi
Memoirs of a Woman Doctorby Nawal El-Saadawi
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The Hidden Face of Eve By Nawal El Saadawi
The Hidden Face of Eveby Nawal El Saadawi
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Two Women in One By Nawal El-Saadawi
Two Women in Oneby Nawal El-Saadawi
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