Her high scores on national examinations permitted her to enter the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University during a time when the student population was still heavily male. Nawal El Saadawi (also spelled Nawal Sa’-dawi) was born in the Egyptian village of Kafr Tahla in the Nile Delta province of Qalubiyya in 1931. A novel based on El Saadawi’s interview with a woman incarcerated in Egypt’s Qanatir prison and executed circa 1973 published in Arabic (as Imra’ah ’Inda Nuqtat al-Sifr) in 1979, in English in 1983.Īwaiting execution, Firdaus, a prostitute who has murdered a pimp, relates her experiences as a woman in Egypt to a medical researcher/writer visiting the prison.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was Written
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