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

ISBN-13: 9781786993069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str.

Nawal El Saadawi;Sherif Hetata

Opis

Beautifully repackaged, volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist.

Recenzje

'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

'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

'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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

El Saadawi, Nawal Nawal El Saadawi is an internationally renowned writer, novelist and fighter for women's rights both within Egypt and abroad.Born in 1931, in a village outside Cairo, she wrote her first novel, Diary of a Child Called Souad, at the age of thirteen. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together. After graduating from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry, she practised as a medical doctor for two years.From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked for the Egyptian government as Director General for Public Health Education. During this time, she studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master's degree in Public Health in 1966. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the government as a result of political pressure. The magazine Health, which she founded and had 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 renowned 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 her study of Arab women, The Hidden Face of Eve.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 Sadat's assassination. In 1982, she established the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, which was outlawed in 1991. For some years during the Mubarak regime, Saadawi lived in exile, teaching in universities in the USA and Europe, including Duke University and Washington State University. Saadawi 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, 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. Hetata, Sherif Sherif Hetata, the author, was first arrested when, on completion of his medical studies in the mid-forties, he became involved in the turbulent politics of post-war Egypt. In 1950 he escaped from prison and fled to Paris, where he spent a brief year of freedom. Returning secretly to Egypt, he was eventually caught and sentences to ten years' penal servitude. Two of these were spent in iron shackles working in a stone quarry. On his release in 1966 he worked first in the Ministry of Health - where he met and married the feminist and writer Nawal El Saadawi - and then for the United Nations. In 1980 he gave up his job to devote himself to writing. His earlier novel, The Eye with an Iron Lid, was first published in English in 1982.