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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...
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...
