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A Daughter of Isis
- Author
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrator
- Nadia Albina
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 26 September 2024
- Run Time
- 12 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.
Critics Review
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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
Modern African Studies
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As I finished reading Dr. Nawal's autobiography I felt a sudden sense of loss. I didn't want to leave her. I went back and read the last sections again, and then again, until I remembered how many other books she has written. Then I felt delight that I will be able to return to her words and to her stories, and that so many others will share in them
Bettina Aptheker
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This is a book we should all be reading
Doris Lessing
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I think her life has been one long death threat. At a time when nobody else was talking, she spoke the unspeakable
Margaret Atwood
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Details
- Author
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrator
- Nadia Albina
- Duration
- 12 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 September 2024
- ISBN
- 9781350529021
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Autobiography: writers, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Political activism / Political engagement
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words by Nawal El Saadawi, read by Nadia Albina In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.
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