Nawal El Saadawi

Woman at Point Zero

Egyptian woman's graphic confession of murdering her oppressor in patriarchal society

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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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