Off Limits
New Writings on Fear and Sin
$29.92
- Paperback
180 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2020
Summary
Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from Woman at Point Zero to The Fall of the Imam and her prison memoirs, El Saadawi’s fiction and nonfiction works have earned her a reputation as an author who has provided a powerful voice in feminist debates centering on the Middle East.
Off Limits presents a se…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781909942479 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1909942472 |
| Author: | Nawal El-Saadawi |
| Publisher: | GINGKO |
| Imprint: | GINGKO |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 180 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World.”
“Nawal El Saadawi writes with directness and passion.” * New York Times *
“The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World.” * Guardian *
Nawal El-Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi was born in 1931. She is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist, whose writings focus on the subject of women in Islam. She is well known for her exploration of female genital mutilation in Egyptian society and has been described as “the Simone de Beauvoir” of the Arab world. She is founder and president of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. In addition to having been awarded honorary degrees on three continents, she has won the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe (2004), the Inana International Prize in Belgium (2005), and the International Peace Bureau’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize (2012).
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