Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian novelist, physician, and feminist whose Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile exposed patriarchal and religious oppression of Arab women with uncompromising ferocity. She was imprisoned and exiled for her work.
Works
- Woman at Point ZeroEgyptian woman's graphic confession of murdering her oppressor in patriarchal society
- God Dies by the NileNovel about rural Egyptian women's lives under patriarchal and colonial control
- The Hidden Face of EveFeminist critique of female sexuality, genital mutilation, and Arab cultural oppression
- Two Women in OneNovel exploring split personality in an Egyptian woman struggling against societal constraints