Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021)
Forfatter af Firdaus. En stemme i helvede.
Om forfatteren
Nawal El Saadawi was born in 1931. She is an Egyptian feminist author, acitvist, physician and psychiatrist whose writings focus on the subject of women in Islam. She is founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights.
Værker af Nawal El Saadawi
Earnings in enterprises and allocation of labour : state control versus spontaneous mechanisms in the Hungarian economy 5 eksemplarer
المرأة والجنس 5 eksemplarer
Nawal El Saadawi: The Day Mubarak was Tried: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 048 (100 Notes, 100 Thoughts/… (1700) 3 eksemplarer
مذكرات طبيبة 2 eksemplarer
Jdjdjd 2 eksemplarer
Dissidenza e scrittura 2 eksemplarer
Women and Sex 2 eksemplarer
In Camera 1 eksemplar
إنه الدم 1 eksemplar
تعلمت الحب 1 eksemplar
الوجه العاري للمرأة العربية 1 eksemplar
كانت هي الأضعف 1 eksemplar
الأغنية الدائرية 1 eksemplar
دراسات عن المرأة والرجل في المجتمع العربي 1 eksemplar
قضايا المرأة والفكر والسياسة 1 eksemplar
Women and the poor : the challenge of global justice / Women in resistance : the Arab world 1 eksemplar
Revolutionsskrivarna 1 eksemplar
"In Camera" 1 eksemplar
Siempre regreso a casa 1999 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology (1984) — Bidragyder — 200 eksemplarer
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Bidragyder — 90 eksemplarer
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Bidragyder — 58 eksemplarer
The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing (African Writers Series) (1993) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
In the House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers (1998) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Is dit recht, mijn lief? : verhalen en gedichten over mensenrechten (1998) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- El Saadawi, Nawal
- Andre navne
- Sa`dawi, Nawal el
- Fødselsdato
- 1931-10-27
- Dødsdag
- 2021-03-21
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Egypte
- Fødested
- Nafr Tahla, Egypte
- Dødssted
- Cairo, Egypt
- Bopæl
- Nafr Tahla, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt
USA - Uddannelse
- University of Cairo
Columbia University
'Ain Shams University - Erhverv
- physician
psychiatrist
editor
novelist
short-story writer - Relationer
- Hetata, Sherif (echtg.)
- Organisationer
- Arab Women’s Solidarity Association
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Stig Dagerman Prize, 2011
North-South Prize, 2004
Inana International Prize, Belgium, 2005
Seán MacBride Peace Prize, 2012
Honorary Doctorate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 2007
Honorary Doctorate, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 2007 (vis alle 7)
Honorary Doctorate, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, 2010
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“A man does not know a woman’s value, Firdaus. She is the one who determines her value.”
Woman At Point Zero is a powerful feminist work written and published in the 1970s by prize-winning Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi. El Saadawi began as a psychiatrist before becoming Minister for Health. Her writings and activism lead to her being removed from this role and to her imprisonment. At one point she fled Egypt due to death threats, but has continued to campaign strongly for women’s rights.
El Sawaadi writes about her prison visitation to Firdaus, a woman awaiting execution. As Nawal sits on the cold prison floor Firdaus recounts her life story. The book is a fictionalised account of this story, a story of sorrow, hardship and difficulty, yet strength and perseverance. Firdaus is physically and mentally abused in turn by each man in her life. From a lecherous uncle who marries her off at nineteen to a man in his sixties who beats her, to her colleagues, and even men who begin as kind and seemingly well-intentioned. As Firdaus sums up: “All women are victims of deception. Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”
The book is written in a lyrical almost dreamlike fashion. As tragic events shape Firdaus’ philosophy and thinking. The story ends with Firdaus facing her jailers with her truth.
“They said, 'You are a savage and dangerous woman.'
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”
“It is my truth which frightens them. This fearful truth gives me great strength. It protects me from fearing death, or life, or hunger, or nakedness, or destruction. It is this fearful truth which prevents me from fearing the brutality of rulers and policemen. I spit with ease on their lying faces and words, on their lying newspapers.”
I found this book sad as it contains so much violence against one woman but nevertheless it manages to convey strength and truth and highlight the plight of many women around the world. A powerful read.… (mere)