Full Description
The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are essential to anyone wishing to understand the contemporary Arab world. Her dissident voice has stayed as consistent in its critique of neo.imperialist international politics as it has in its denunciation of women's oppression, both in her native Egypt and in the wider world.
Saadawi is a figure of international significance, and her work has a central place in Arabic history and culture of the last half century. Featuring work never before translated into English, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawi's writing. From novellas and short stories to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex; from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist; from poetry to autobiography, this book is essential for anyone wishing to gain a sense of the breadth of Saadawi's work.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface - Nawal El Saadawi
Timeline
Introduction - Adele Newson-Horst
Part I: Articles/Essays/Non-fictional Prose
1. How to Write and Why
2. How to Fight Against the Postmodern Slave System
3. First Trip Outside the Homeland
4. Introduction to The Hidden Face of Eve
5. The Seventh International AWSA Conference
6. Women and the Poor
7. God Above, Husband Below
8. The House of Desolation
9. The Streetwalker and the Woman Writer
10. Muslim Women in the Market
11. Bodour
12. Writing and Freedom
13. The Three Universal Taboos: Sex, Religion, and Politics
14. Breeding Terror or an Uncivilized Clash of Civilizations
15. Breeding Terror or an Uncivilized Clash of Civilizations
16. Fear and Writing
17. Obama's Speech in Cairo
Part II: Fiction and Poetry
18. Death of an Ex-Minister
19. My Ideal Mother
20. A Paper that was Never Presented for Publication
21. Sixteen Short Poems
22. Inspired by the Summit Meeting with the Elite
23. The Impact of Fanatic Religious Thought
Part III: Drama
24. Twelve Women in a Cell
Part IV: Interviews and Criticism
25. Feminism in Egypt: A Conversation with Nawal El Saadawi
26. Fed Up with Limited Thinking: An Interview
27. Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi
28. Nawal El Saadawi's Fall of the Imam: The Daughter of the Goddess of the Land Fells the Imam and Rises Again
Part V: Bibliographies
29. Bibliography of Book Length Works
30. Bibliography of Interviews
31. Bibliography of Criticism
