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Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, ALA-LC: Nawāl as-Saaʻdāwī, 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam , focusing on the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. [ 1 ]
Woman at Point Zero (Arabic: امرأة عند نقطة الصفر, Emra'a enda noktat el sifr) is a novel by Nawal El Saadawi written in 1975 and published in Arabic in 1977. The novel is based on Saadawi's meeting with a female prisoner in Qanatir Prison and is the first-person account of Firdaus, a murderess who has agreed to tell her life ...
Woman at Point Zero is an English and Arabic language multimedia opera in one act, with music by British composer Bushra El-Turk and libretto by South African writer Stacy Hardy. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Nawal El Saadawi.
Another author who works in the speculative genre, is Ahmed Khaled Towfik. He is one of the first Arab writers to write science-fiction. [5] He inspired other authors such as Ahmed Mourad. [5] Nawal El Saadawi was a feminist writer who wrote from the unique perspective of experience womanhood in a politically oppressive state. [6]
The following list are the nominees with verified nominations from the Nobel Committee and recognized international organizations. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after, [6] among them Nawal El Saadawi [7] [8] [نوال السعداوي] (for Literature), Sonallah Ibrahim [9] [ صنع الله ...
The Fall of the Imam is a novel by Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi published in Arabic in 1987. The English translation by the author's husband Sherif Hetata was published in 1988. [ 1 ]
Nawal El Saadawi alleges that Ziadeh was sent to the hospital for expressing feminist sentiments. [12] Ziadeh was profoundly humiliated and incensed by this decision; she eventually recovered and left after a medical report proved that she was of sound mental health. She returned to Cairo where she died on October 17, 1941. [2] [20]
Woman at Point Zero is inspired by the novel by Egyptian writer and feminist Nawal El Saadawi. The opera tells the story of two women: Fatma, a feminist imprisoned for man-slaughter and Sama, a documentary filmmaker who wants to tell Fatma's story. Produced by LOD Theatre, it explores abuse and women's liberation.