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Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi

  • 111 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1983
  • 7 editions
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1 About this book

Woman at Point Zero (Arabic: امرأة عند نقطة الصفر, Emra'a enda noktat el sifr) is a novel by Nawal El Saadawi written in 1975 and published in Arabic in 1977. The novel is based on Saadawi's meeting with a female prisoner in Qanatir Prison and is the first-person account of Firdaus, a murderess who has agreed to tell her life story before her execution. The novel explores the themes of women and their place within a patriarchal society.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Feminism
  • Social conditions
  • Women prisoners
  • Women
  • Text
  • Modern & contemporary fiction
  • Prostitutes
  • Egypt

2 About Nawal El Saadawi

1931–2021

Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī; 27 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote numerous books on women in Islam, focusing on issues affecting women in the Global South, including sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism. She was the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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