‘El Saadawi has a flair for melodrama and mystery. ‘Woman at Point Zero should begin the long march towards a realistic and sympathetic portrayal of Arab women.’ 2007 by Nawal El-Saadawi (Author) 616 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £6.02 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £61.14 1 Used from £61.14 Paperback £4.65 19 Used from £1.86 MP3 CD £12.37 3 New from £8. ‘A powerful indictment of the treatment of women in many parts of the Middle East’ ‘The most influential feminist thinker in the Arab world over the past half-century.’ Zed Books has also published four of her previous novels, Woman at Point Zero (1983), God Dies by the Nile (1985), The Circling Song (1989) and Searching (1991) as well as a collection of her non-fiction writings The Nawal El Saadawi Reader (1997).
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.
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: ) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Woman at Point Zero is the story of one Arab woman, but it reads as if it is every woman’s life.’ Her most famous novel, Woman at Point Zero was published in Beirut in 1973. The Author Book Woman at point zero and the author of 3 another books. ‘This extraordinary novel, written with such compassion, forces us to the edge, and deep inside what must be one of the worst tales of women’s oppression while somehow managing to inspire hope, if only through the courage of Nawal El Saadawi for being one of the first to tell this story to the world.’ This is a tale of injustice, inequality and sheer bad luck - written with such grace and skill as to be on a part with the finest literature of this or any era - haunting, poetic and fiercely relevant.’ ‘A dramatic female revolt against the norms of the Arab world’ ‘Nawal El Saadawi writes with directness and passion, transforming the systematic brutalisation of peasants and of women in to powerful allegory’
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