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    Woman at Point Zero

    By Nawal El-Saadawi and Miriam Cooke

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    Firdaus is born into a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside. She constantly pursues knowledge and compassion, but because she is poor and a woman, she does not receive much of either. Her desire to continue her education is ignored by her family and she enters into an arranged marriage with a much older man.

    She escapes from her marriage and other violent relationships only to meet Shafira -- a woman who leads her into a life of prostitution. Firdaus’s anger at society, men, and the treatment of women grows and festers with each day. After taking drastic action, she is imprisoned in Cairo and sentenced to death.

    Woman at Point Zero is a classic global feminist novel written by Nawal El Saadawi with a foreword from Miriam Cooke. It has inspired women all over the world and gives readers an honest look at the brutal treatment of women in our world that still happens today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZed Books
    Release dateOct 15, 2015
    ISBN9781783607426
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    Nawal El-Saadawi

    Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021) was an internationally renowned feminist writer and activist from Egypt. She founded and became president of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association and co-founded the Arab Association for Human Rights. Among her numerous roles in public office she served as Egypt’s National Director of Public Health and stood as a candidate in the 2004 Egyptian presidential elections. El Saadawi held honorary doctorates from the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso, and her numerous awards include the Council of Europe North-South Prize, the Women of the Year Award (UK), Sean MacBride Peace Prize (Ireland), and the National Order of Merit (France). She wrote over fifty novels, short stories and non-fiction works which centre on the status of Arab women, which have been translated into more than thirty languages.

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    • 5/5
      Every woman should read this book. One of my favorite reads in a while.
    • 5/5
      A stunning and explosive expose of the workings of prostitution in a Arab-speaking country. Truly humbling in her ability to leave the the blinders of privilege; Sadaawi, a psychologist and professor by profession, brilliantly exposes the similarities in the situation of women whether rich or poor, educated or unlettered, prostitue or housewife.

      Woman at Point Zero demonstrates an inspired use of insight and language to juxtapose ideas that are rarely combined: ‘I am a killer," says the woman facing execution for murdering her pimp, "but I’ve committed no crime. Like you," she tells the policeman, "I kill only criminals.’

      Summing up her experiences as the former lover of a charismatic work-place organizer, the protagonist on death row reflects: “Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money. Revolution for them is like sex for us. Something to be abused. Something to be sold. “
    • 5/5
      This book is amazing and enlightening. All women should read this.


      It is fine to be a misandrist in such a terrible world.
    • 5/5
      Firdaus is waiting in prison to die because she is a woman in a man's world; because she knows the truth of this world and is not afraid to speak it. She has killed but she is not a criminal. This is the powerful story of how she came to be there. The writing is fierce, insightful and intelligent. Nawal el Saadawi rips apart the patriarchy and lays bare it's ugly truths
    • 5/5
      It made me think about women suffering around the world. Since a girl is born , her life has been made to serve others. That is not right. I really admire the courage of Firdaus in the book when she makes them all fear with the truth.