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By Nawal El Saadawi, Adele Newson Horst

ISBN-10: 1848133367

ISBN-13: 9781848133365

Publish 12 months note: First released might 1st 2009
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The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are necessary to someone wishing to appreciate the modern Arab international. Her dissident voice has stayed as constant in its critique of neo.imperialist foreign politics because it has in its denunciation of women's oppression, either in her local Egypt and within the wider international. Saadawi is a determine of foreign value, and her paintings has a relevant position in Arabic heritage and tradition of the final part century. that includes paintings by no means ahead of translated into English, the fundamental Nawal El Saadawi gathers jointly quite a lot of Saadawi's writing. From novellas and brief tales to essays on politics, tradition, faith and intercourse; from vast interviews to her paintings as a dramatist; from poetry to autobiography, this ebook is key for somebody wishing to achieve a feeling of the breadth of Saadawi's work.

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I discovered that my head and chest were not bleeding. I could walk to the living room. I could even open the fridge and drink water. I felt happy, being alive again after temporary death. I started thinking about my future plans, what I want to do from now until I die in a terrorist attack or from breast cancer. I may live another ten or even twenty years. Yesterday while walking in the park I met a woman walking fast. She smiled at me. We started talking. She looked my age but she was over ninety, twenty years older than me.

Feminists are going back to the church or to spirituality, unaware of the fact that the core of patriarchy, of women’s oppression, lies in this split between the body and the spirit. Many feminists supported Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin because they are women. Simply being a woman does not make one a feminist. Sarah Palin’s policy, declared in her own words, is against real feminism, real democracy and real civilization. She covers her violent, military, capitalist, patriarchal policies under labels such as loving God, pure spirituality, good motherhood, humanism and family values.

This was immediately followed by an even stranger thought: that my father too had a connection with this dark line. Here my thoughts stopped completely, as if I’d reached the end of the world. I returned to earth, then clambered onto the high wooden chair and reached up to the top of the cupboard, but I could not get to the suitcase. Every night, from the start of the summer holidays, I would dream that my arm grew longer and longer and grasped the suitcase, that all my clothes were moved from the cupboard to the case, that my mother was waking me at dawn to put on my new clothes — my father made sure the windows and doors were locked, the taxi waited outside.

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