![]() ![]() We live the beautiful moments of her third marriage with a man released after fourteen years of imprisonment and hard labour - their love, companionship and shared struggle. We share her struggle against her 'false self' and a second husband who offers her financial security and comfort - provided she stops writing. We witness her first marriage to a freedom fighter hounded into drug addiction by a system that has no mercy. We travel with her into exile after the publication of her name on a death list. We follow her attempts to set up women's organizations and to publish magazines later banned by the authorities or endangered by fundamentalist threats. 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. This autobiography shows the passion for justice that has shaped her life and her writing. ![]() Imprisoned under Sadat for her opinions, she has continued to fight against all forms of discrimination based on class, gender, nationality, race or religion. Walking through Fire takes up the story of her extraordinary life.įamous for her novels, short stories and writings on women, Saadawi is known as the first Arab woman to have written about sex and its relation to economics and politics. 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. ![]()
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