The Hidden Face of Eve

Name: The Hidden Face of Eve
Author: Nawal El Saadawi

by Nawal El Saadawi

Feminist critique of female sexuality, genital mutilation, and Arab cultural oppression

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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.

More by Nawal El Saadawi

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
Two Women in OneNovel exploring split personality in an Egyptian woman struggling against societal constraints