Walking through Fire

In Walking through Fire , Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world''s greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. Covering her life in Nasser''s then Sadat''s and Mubarak''s Egypt, we learn about Saadawi''s experience of marriage and motherhood, and we travel with her into exile after her life was threatened by religious extremists. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the later years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.>

Auteur
Nawal El Saadawi was born in a village outside Cairo, Egypt, in 1931. A trained medical doctor, she wrote landmark works on the oppression of Arab women including Woman at Point Zero (1973), God Dies by the Nile (1976) and The Hidden Face of Eve (1977). After being imprisoned by Anwar Sadat's government for criticising the regime, she founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association in 1982, before being forced into exile in later life due to death threats by religious extremists. She returned to Egypt in 1996, running for president in 2005 until government persecution forced her to withdraw. Saadawi died in Egypt in 2021.

Contenu
Foreword by Nadia Wassef 1. The Threat 2. Spreading My Wings 3. The Village Doctor 4. The Tripartite Invasion 5. What is Suppressed Always Comes Back 6. Love and Despair 7. My Mother has no Place in Paradise 8. Moments that Belong Nowhere 9. The Death Threat 10. Beyond Consciousness 11. The Photograph 12. The Scalpel and the Law 13. The Defeat 14. Searching for Love 15. An Aborted Revolution 16. The Dream of Flying