Nawal El Saadawi

Biographic Data

ID812786
NAMENawal El Saadawi
GIVEN NAMESNawal
FAMILY NAMEEl Saadawi
SIGNATUREEL SAADAWI N
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Woman at Point Zero

    Nawal El SaadawiBOOKWoman at Point Zero2024

    Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born to poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her childhood dreams and ambitions had been met with neglect and abuse by the world and the men who rule it. Driven to sex work to support herself, she is faced with the moral outrage of society and the bitter knowledge that for a woman, true freedom comes only when all hope is abandoned. In Nawal El Saadawi’s landmark novel, Woman at Point Zero,…

  • The Hidden Face of Eve

    Nawal El SaadawiBOOKThe Hidden Face of Eve2015

    This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago.

  • A Postmodern Christian-Muslim Feminist

    Nawal El SaadawiARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2010Cited by: 1

    Meeting Report| November 01 2010 A Postmodern Christian-Muslim Feminist Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 183–187. https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2010.6.3.183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nawal El Saadawi; A Postmodern Christian-Muslim Feminist. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2…

  • A Daughter of Isis

    Nawal El SaadawiBOOKA Daughter of Isis2009

    ‘Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existence in a world where everything was liquid, where the blue of the sea melted into the blue of the sky with nothing between. This independent existence was to become the outer world, the world of my father, of land, country, religion, language, moral codes. It was to become the world around me. A world made of male bodies in which my female body lived…

  • War Against Women and Women Against War

    Nawal El SaadawiARTICLEThe Black Scholar2008

    (2008). War Against Women and Women Against War: Waging War on the Mind. The Black Scholar: Vol. 38, Yari Yari Pamberi International Conference: Black Women Writers Dissect Globalization, pp. 27-32

  • The Seventh International Awsa Conference

    Nawal El Saadawi, Nawal SadawiARTICLEMeridians2006

    In May 2005 approximately two hundred men and women from four continents participated in a conference called Women, Creativity, and Dissidence that I convened in Cairo, Egypt, under the aegis of the Arab Women Solidarity Association (AWSA).1 One would not need to look far to find reasons for the necessity of such a global gathering at this juncture in transnational and global relations. Grave concerns about the deepening inequalities within, betw…

  • Presentation by Nawal El Saadawi

    Nawal El SaadawiARTICLEThe Journal of the Midwest Modern…2000

    Nawal El Saadawi, Presentation by Nawal El Saadawi: President's Forum, M/MLA Annual Convention, November 4, 1999, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 33/34, Vol. 33, no. 3 - Vol. 34, no. 1 (Autumn, 2000 - Winter, 2001), pp. 34-39

  • Memoirs from the Women's Prison

    Open AccessNahla Abdo, Nawal El SaadawiBOOKThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1996Cited by: 3

  • "But Have Some Art With You"

    Nawal El SaadawiARTICLELiterature and medicine1995

    “But Have Some Art with You”: An Interview with Nawal El Saadawi Jennifer Cohen L&M: We’d like to start with Memoirs of a Woman Doctor. Much of the novel is drawn from your own experience and observations as a medical student. NES: Of course. Yes. First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other. Of course, I was …

  • A New Battle for the Women's Movement in Egypt

    Nawal El Saadawi, Seemi GhaziARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…1995

    Research Article| August 01 1995 A New Battle for the Women's Movement in Egypt Nawal El Saadawi; Nawal El Saadawi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Seemi Ghazi Seemi Ghazi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 90–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-2-90 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Cita…

  • Dissidence and Creativity

    Nawal El SaadawiARTICLEWomen a Cultural Review1995Cited by: 3References: 1

  • A Feminist in the Arab World

    Nawal El Saadawi, Mary E WilmuthARTICLEWomen & Therapy1995

    No abstract available for this article

  • Memoirs from the women's prison

    Nawal El SaadawiBOOKMemoirs from the women's prison1991

  • Nawal El Saadawi

    Nawal El Saadawi, Jo BeallARTICLEAgenda1989

  • Woman and Islam

    Open AccessNawal El SaadawiARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1982Cited by: 14

  • The hidden face of Eve

    Nawal El Saadawi, Doctor Ronak Husni et al.BOOKThe hidden face of Eve1980

    This is a personal and often disturbing account of growing up into womanhood in the Islamic world. The author ranges over a host of topics, from sexual aggression against female children and the circumcision of young girls, to prostitution, sexual relationships, marriage and divorce. She relates women's position in the Middle East to the struggles between the left and right in Islam, and shows how the political priorities of Western and Third Wor…