Tamara Mitchell
Professor Nancy Gilbert
English 1102
April 7, 2014
Johnson-Davies, Denys. "Nawal El Saadawi." The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction. New York. Anchor Books, 2006.364.Print.
This essay is a short biography about Nawal El Saadawi. Saadawi is a trained doctor and published many books. She is also the second most widely read Arab writer in the world. Saadawi was born in a small Egyptian village and became well known in the 1970s for her books exposing the sexual and cultural oppression of Arab women. She was then put in prison by Egyptian president in 1981. Once released, she left Egypt in the 1990s and came to the United States because she was getting threatened by Muslim fundamentalists. Once she got to the United States she taught a number of American universities and became a "controversial figure."
This essay offers of background information on her. The information in the essay seems to be accurate because I compared it to that same information in several other sources. This essay doesn’t scenes a personal opinion or feeling towards a subject. It just states facts. However, the essay is not very comprehensive. This is because it’s a short essay. It does not so into depth or give allot of details. Also this book isn’t all that current. It was published in 2006.
Saadawi, Nawal El. "She Has No Place in Paradise." Ed. Johnson-Davies, Denys. New York. Anchor Books, 2006.365-373.Print.
This is a story about a woman named Zeinab who was taught that she was placed here on earth for one reason only, to please the men and do exactly as they demanded. She took ongoing abuse throughout her whole life. However, her mother told her that she would have paradise one day. She often found herself daydreaming of ...
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Manhattan's Brecht Forum hosted three remarkable women, who reported on the conflicts and popular uprisings transforming the Middle East. First to speak was Dr. Nawal el-Saadawi, author of many books that explore Arab women's sexuality and legal status, including The Hidden Face of Eve, Daughter of Isis, and Woman at Point Zero. Her activism has led to threats on her life, loss of her position as Egypt's director of public health, imprisonment in 1981 and exile to the U.S. in 1988. “I have survived the events of my life because of the pleasures of writing. The revolution gives me the same pleasure." Saadawi enthusiastically threw her support behind those defending workers' rights in Madison, Wisconsin, but she encouraged Americans to demand even more change--Egyptian-style.
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Both el Saadawi and Al-Shaykh both show how perception and expression are both affected within the confines of politics, social opportunities, and male privilege depicted in their stories. Whether the reader is a follower of the feminist movement or not, it is very clear and easy to see that these women are not being treated with the respect that any human being deserves. The misogynistic stranglehold on society, especially in this part of the world, is excessive and avoidable in today’s world but it is very likely that the traditional, conservative ways of the past will continue to control and inhibit women from being able to be fully treated as equals for many years to come, perhaps even after this generation has
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she is only 16-year-old from an Islamic country leading the first vital step towards raising the status of women in the Arab region is undoubtedly laudable. Indeed, she deserves to be called an ideal person of all girls in the world, who fight against any obstacles that abuse women’s individual rights. She is raising confidence to all girls and urging them to speak out what they want to be and ask for what they should have
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... she addressed many problems of her time in her writings. She was an inspirational person for the feminism movements. In fact, she awoke women’s awareness about their rights and freedom of choice. She was really a great woman.
Perhaps the main reason I liked this book was the unfaltering courage of the author in the face of such torture as hurts one even to read, let alone have to experience first-hand. Where men give in, this woman perseveres, and, eventually, emerges a stronger person, if that is even possible. The book’s main appeal is emotional, although sound logical arguments are also used. This book is also interesting as it shows us another face of Nasir – the so-called “champion of Arab nationalism” – who is also the enemy of pan-Islamism. The book is also proof of history repeating itself in modern-day Egypt.