Product Description: The writing of Nawal el Saadawi is essential. Her dissident voice has consistently critiqued neo-imperialist international politics coupled with the oppression of women both in her native Egypt and in the world beyond. This book, the first volume in "Zed's Essential Feminists" series, gathers a selection of the whole range of Saadawi's writing together in one volume for the first time...read more

Product Description: “More than any other woman, El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism.”—San Francisco Chronicle This is a collection that brings together the two plays that led to Nawal El Saadawi being charged with “insulting Islam” in Egypt...read more