Walking through fire : a life of Nawal El Saadawi / translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saʻdāwī, Nawāl.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Ḥatātah, Sharīf.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Saʻdāwī, Nawāl.

Women authors, Egyptian--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, Egyptian.

Authors, Egyptian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Egyptian.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

251 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Claremont, South Africa : D. Philip ; London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

"Walking Through Fire" is the story of Nawal El Saadawi, the first Arab woman to write about sex and its relation to economics and politics. It explores her extraordinary life spent in resistance, and shows the passion for justice that has shaped her life and writings. A sequel to her first autobiography," A Daughter of Isis," this book chronicles her time spent as a rural doctor, her attempts to set up women' s organizations and publish magazines later banned by authorities or endangered by fundamentalist threats, her time in exile after her name was published on a death list, and her marriages and ensuing struggles against her "false self" .

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1842770764

1842770772

0864865155

OCLC:

53098845