This powerful and poetic novel by "Egypt's most interesting feminist" (Booklist ) raises awareness of the predicament of women in Egypt. The book tells the story of Bint Allah, a beautiful illegitimate girl, whose father is the Imam—the religious ruler in Islamic society believed to be representative of God. Bint Allah is falsely accused by the Imam of adulterous relationships, then sentenced to death by stoning. It is through the eyes of Bint Allah that one can see the underlying hypocrisy of a male-dominated religious state.

Fall of the Imam: Nawal El Saadawi

Literature & Fiction

Sadawi, Nawal

History & Criticism

METHUEN

SHE HAS NO PLACE PARADISE

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

My Travels Around the World

<p>A collage of the impressions and experiences of Nawal El Saadawi, a qualified doctor of medicine who was able to travel to various countries between the 1950s and the 1970s. Her observations are of particular interest, since at the time Arabian women were heavily restricted from travelling.</p>

A collection of stories about Arab society, but with universal themes; the meaning of life and love, female sexuality and repressed emotions. Most of the stories deal with sexual politics in today's society.

DEATH OF AN EX-MINISTER

Nawal el Saadawi's classic tale attempts to square Islam with a society in which women are respected as equals is as relevant today as ever. 'People have become corrupt everywhere. You can search in vain for Islam, or a devout Muslim. They no longer exist.' Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?

God Dies by the Nile (Third World Literature) (English and Arabic Edition)

Contemporary

Zed Books

Hamida and Hamido are twins, grown from a single embryo inside one womb. Violently parted, they search the city in the darkening circles of a dream, only to find, lose and find each other, each time as if it were the first. Their journey - terrifying and exact - leads to an unbroken cycle of corruption and brutality, With a precise and hypnotic intensity, Nawal El Saadawi pursues the conflicts of sex, class, gender and military violence deep into the psyche.

The Circling Song

Bahiah Shaheen, a young medical student in Egypt, is encouraged to break free of the rigid constraints of her society by a chance encounter with a stranger

Two Women in One (English and Arabic Edition)

Literary

Seal Pr

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Fall of the Imam: Nawal El Saadawi

SHE HAS NO PLACE PARADISE

My Travels Around the World

DEATH OF AN EX-MINISTER

God Dies by the Nile (Third World Literature) (English and Arabic Edition)

The Circling Song

The Circling Song

Two Women in One (English and Arabic Edition)