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Walking through fireWalking through fire

Walking through fire

Nawal El Saadawi

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"Walking through Fire shows the passion for justice that has shaped her life and her writing. We read about her as a rural doctor, trying to help a young girl escape from a terrible fate imposed on her by a brutal male tyranny. We follow her attempts to set up women's organizations and to publish magazines later banned by the authorities or endangered by fundamentalist threats. We travel with her into exile after the publication of her name on a death list. We witness her first marriage to a freedom fighter hounded into drug addiction by a system that has no mercy. We share her struggle against her 'false self' and a second husband who offers her financial security and comfort - provided she stops writing. We live the beautiful moments of her third marriage with a man released after fourteen years of imprisonment and hard labour, and the love, companionship, shared struggle and the differences between them."--Jacket.

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OL Work ID
OL10994397W

Subjects

Authors, EgyptianEgyptian Women authorsEgyptEgyptian AuthorsArab Women authorsBiographyWomen authors, EgyptianWomen physicians

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