Name: Two Women in one
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Author: Saadawi, Nawal El ; Khan, Deeyah
ISBN: 9780863566912

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nawal El Saadawi

Preface by

Deeyah Khan

Publisher

Saqi Books

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 13.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9780863566912

Synopsis "Two Women in one "

Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hardworking, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day proves to be the beginning of her road to self-discovery and the start of her realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible. 'These two women live, to some degree, in every thinking woman.' New York Times Book Review '... an intensely told story ... A valuable opportunity to understand more clearly the currents of thought regarding women in a culture vastly different from the West.' Christian Science Monitor 'At a time when nobody else was talking, [El Saadawi] spoke the unspeakable.' Margaret Atwood, BBC Imagine 'The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab world' The Guardian 'El Saadawi writes with directness and passion' New York Times 'A poignant and brave writer' Marie Claire 'El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism' San Francisco Chronicle

Nawal El Saadawi

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(Egypt 1931 - 2021) Born into a wealthy family in Egypt, and at a young age suffered genital mutilation. Studied Medicine at Cairo University. Working as a doctor in Kafr Tahl, she observed the difficulties and inequalities faced by rural women. She was the director of Public Health in Cairo. However, she was dismissed from her position in the Ministry of Health due to her political activities, which also cost her the positions of editor-in-chief of a health newspaper and deputy secretary-general of the Egyptian Medical Association. Between 1973 and 1976, she worked on researching neurosis in women at Ain Shams University, and between 1979 and 1980, she was an advisor to the United Nations for the Women's Program in Africa (CEP) and the Middle East (CEPA). She was imprisoned in 1981 for her opposition to the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel by President Anwar al Sadat. In 1991, after receiving death threats from Islamists, she went into exile in the United States and began working as a professor at the University of Washington. In 1996, she returned to Egypt to continue her activism for women's rights, especially through her written work.

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