Name: Walking Through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal el Saadawi, in her own Words
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Author: Nawal El Saadawi
ISBN: 9780755651641

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Walking Through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal el Saadawi, in her own Words

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nawal El Saadawi

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780755651641

Walking Through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal el Saadawi, in her own Words

Nawal El Saadawi (Author) · Bloomsbury Academic · Paperback

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Synopsis "Walking Through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal el Saadawi, in her own Words"

In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. Covering her life in Nasser's then Sadat's and Mubarak's Egypt, we learn about Saadawi's experience of marriage and motherhood, and we travel with her into exile after her life was threatened by religious extremists. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the later years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.

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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