Ann Biersteker has graciously provided us with these notes, for those of you who wish to read more of Nawal El Saadawi's work:
- The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
Translated and edited by Sherif Hetata (London: Zed Press, 1980). This is probably her most well-known collection of essays.
- The Innocence of the Devil
Translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata, introduction by Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). Her most recent novel. I found it less interesting than some of the others because I am not especially interested in questions of theology.
- Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth (London: Women's Press, 1986). This is her account of when she was imprisoned by Sadat & of her interactions with the fundamentalist women with whom she shared the prison.
- The Nawal El Saadawi Reader: Selected Essays, 1970-1996
(London, New York: Zed Books, 1997). This is a somewhat mixed collection, but you would enjoy reading about her experiences in the U.S. and American academia as well as other of the essays.
- Woman at Point Zero
Translated by Sherif Hetata (London: Zed Books, 1983). This is her most widely taught novel. Whenever I teach it I find that every student has read it straight through. The narrator is a woman condemned to death for murder who narrates her life history to a woman doctor.
- Modern Arabic Poetry
Ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). This is the anthology I recommend.
Ann Biersteker
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