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Showing on BBC World News this weekend - a documentary on the remarkable Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi. Ceaseless campaigner for womem's rights, abolition of FGM, and author of numerous highly acclaimed literary works......some banned at the time in Egypt.
At 23.10 today and 04.10/17.10 tomorrow (Egyptian time)
Writer Nawal El Saadawi has braved prison, exile and death threats in her fight against female oppression. And she isn't about to give up now.
Nawal al Sadawi- what could you tell me about her and her writings?
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I went through my Amazon wishlist and bit the bullet and bought a couple of her books - Woman at Point Zero and Zeina. I've just finished reading Woman and Point Zero and couldn't put the book down....
I've only just seen this programme advertised (but I think it will be iplayer afterwards).
BBC1 10-45pm Tues 21st February 2017
She Spoke the Unspeakable
imagine..., Winter 2017
The Egyptian...
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Start perhaps with her 'Woman at Point Zero': Firdaus, a murderess who is
about to be hanged, tells her story to her prison visitor (ie El Sadaawi ....)
I always used to think Nawal El Saadawi was a glimmer of light in the darkness of Egyptian human rights and democracy and her acquiescence to some of the regimes' outrages could be put down to...
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Newcastle. i agree with you and this is not her first interview in the past 4-5 years which has seemed a reversal of her previous liberal views.
Senility is one interpretation but another is that...