Nawal el Saadawi

"Todos los hombres que he conocido solo me han inspirado un deseo: el de alzar la mano y dejarla caer con fuerza sobre su rostro". Así comienza la notable historia de Firdaus de rebelión contra una sociedad fundada en mentiras, hipocresía, brutalidad y opresión. Nacida en el seno de una familia campesina en Egipto, Firdaus lucha a lo largo de su infancia, buscando la compasión y el conocimiento en un mundo que le da muy poco de ambas cuestiones. A medida que crece, cada nueva relación le enseña una amarga pero liberadora verdad: las únicas personas libres son aquellas que no quieren nada, no temen nada y no esperan nada.

Nawal El Saadawis most recent play, God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadawi with insulting the "Almighty God", not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to Egypt and her Egyptian nationality be revoked. In the play, the prophets and great women gather for a meeting with God. Satan arrives to tender his resignation but neither Jesus, nor Mohammad, nor Moses are willing to replace him. Finally, God himself resigns. The second play in this collection is Isis, a critique of the discriminatory rules that control women, the daughters of Isis. Both God Resigns and Isis incorporate key themes to El Saadawis work: that all religions are inimical to women and the poor, that the oppression of women is reprehensible and not uniquely characteristic of the Middle East or the "Third World", and that free speech is fundamental to any society.

Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hard-working, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day sparks her journey of self-discovery and of the realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible.

ESGOTAT Escrita a partir d'una historia real, _Dona al punt zero_, inedita en català, relata la vida de la Firdaus. En àrab Firdaus significa 'paradís', pero ella sembla haver transitat sempre per l

Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hard-working, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day proves to be the beginning of her road to self-discovery and the start of her realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible.

Este poderoso e poético romance é um grito de guerra contra aqueles que usam a religião como arma para subjugar as mulheres. Em uma escrita experimental, ousada e de certa forma fragmentada, a escrit

Bodour, a distinguished literary critic, carries with her a dark secret. As a young university student, she fell in love with a political activist and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she abandoned on the streets of Cairo. Zeina grows up to become one of Egypts most beloved entertainers, despite being deprived of a family name and a home. Bodour in turn remains trapped in a loveless marriage, pining for her daughter and lost love. In an attempt to find solace, she writes a fictionalised account of her life, which then mysteriously gets stolen. Set against the backdrop of revolution in Cairo, Zeina is a tale about regret, loss and the courage it takes for a mother to face up to the mistakes of her past.

«La cara oculta de Eva», un clásico de la literatura árabe moderna, denuncia la opresión que sufren las mujeres en el mundo islámico y, con unos nuevos prólogo y epílogo, mantiene toda su vigencia má

Bint Allah knows herself only as the Daughter of God. Born in a stifling male-dominated state, ruled by the Imam and his coterie of ministers, she dreams of one day reaching the top of a distant hill visible through the bars of the orphanage window.But Bint Allahs ambitions do not escape the attention of the Imam, who never feels secure no matter how well he protects himself. When the Imam falsely accuses Bint Allah of adultery and sentences her to death by stoning, he is not prepared for what happens next.A postmodern fantasia, this powerful and poetic novel is a call to arms against those who use religion as a weapon against women.

A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body. After years of denying her own desires, the doctor begins a series of love affairs that allow her to explore her sexuality on her own terms.Written in her twenties when Nawal El Saadawi was studying in Cairo, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor is the searing coming-of-age story of a woman striving for freedom in a male-dominated world. This classic feminist novel remains as thought-provoking today as when it was first published.

"Todos los hombres que he conocido solo me han inspirado un deseo: el de alzar la mano y dejarla caer con fuerza sobre su rostro". Así comienza la notable historia de Firdaus de rebelión contra una sociedad fundada en mentiras, hipocresia, brutalidad y opresion. Nacida en el seno de una familia campesina en Egipto, Firdaus lucha a lo largo de su infancia, buscando la compasion y el conocimiento en un mundo que le da muy poco de ambas cuestiones. A medida que crece, cada nueva relacion le enseña una amarga pero liberadora verdad: las unicas personas libres son aquellas que no quieren nada, no temen nada y no esperan nada.Desde sus primeros recuerdos, Firdaus sufrio a manos de los hombres. Primero su abusivo padre, luego su violento marido, y finalmente su engañoso novio convertido en proxeneta. Despues de toda una vida de abuso, por fin llevara a cabo una accion drastica contra los varones que gobiernan su vida. Desde su celda, Firdaus, condenada a morir por haber matado a un proxeneta en una calle de El Cairo, cuenta su vida desde la infancia en la aldea a la vida de prostituta en la ciudad. La retribucion de la sociedad por su acto de desafio la muerte le da la bienvenida como la unica manera de poder ser finalmente libre.

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