Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. And we gain an unprecedented insight into this most wonderful of creative minds. We witness her three marriages, each offering in their way love, companionship and shared struggle. We travel with her into exile after her name is put on a fundamentalist death list. We learn about her activism for female empowerment and the authorities that try to obstruct her. We read about her as a rural doctor, trying to help a young girl escape from a terrible fate imposed on her by a brutal male tyranny. Walking through Fire takes up the story of her extraordinary life. In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women. Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppression imposed on women by gender and class. Born in a small Egyptian village in 1931, her life and writings have shown an extraordinary strength of character and a unique ability to create new worlds in the fight against oppression. Nawal El Saadawi is one of the greatest writers to come out of the Arab world. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.' 'Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives.
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