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Notes for further reading

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
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    • The Hidden Face of Eve
    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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
    (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
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    • 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
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    • 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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