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Sa?d?w?, Naw?l
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A daughter of Isis: the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi
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1999
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1999
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294
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Recognised throughout the world as an Arab woman who refuses to be silenced, Saadawi chooses not to describe the imprisonment she endured under President Sadat in 1981, nor does she focus on the fundamentalist death threat she suffered in 1992 which led to her five-year exile in the USA. Instead, she recalls her memories of the first twenty years of her life (1931-51), 'years that had been very important in the direction that [her] life later ook' (p. 290). Central to Saadawi's memories is the figure of her mother, Zaynab. As the title of the text suggests, this is the story of a daughter descended from a line of strong Egyptian women. . . . In this book we see how, from an early age, Saadawi combines her love of the Arabic language with her awareness of gender-based oppression to create texts which are as subversive as they are moving: 'the written word for [her] became an act of rebell
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Zed
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London & New York
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Sherif Hetata