Nawal El Saadawi

God Dies by the Nile

Novel about rural Egyptian women's lives under patriarchal and colonial control

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Nawal El Saadawi
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.

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