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Introduction: The World of Nawal El Saadawi or Nawal Zaynab
PART ONE Articles, Essays and Nonfictional Prose
2 | How to Fight against the Postmodern Slave System
Why are more people going back to religion?
3 | First Trip outside the Homeland
4 | Preface to The Hidden Face of Eve
5 | Women, Creativity and Dissidence
Linking women, creativity and dissidence
Expanding the understanding of creativity
Old forms, new questions: resistance and change
Towards a new identity built on human solidarity
6 | Women and the Poor: The Challenge of Global Justice
What is a good government in the South?
Religion, the poor and women
Women and population control
How to empower resistance
7 | God Above, Husband Below
8 | The House of Desolation
9 | The Streetwalker and the Woman Writer
10 | Muslim Women in the Market
A postmodern Christian and Muslim feminist
Books by Muslim feminists
The pleasure of creativity
13 | The Three Universal Taboos: Sex, Religion and Politics
Veiling, virginity and the name of the mother
The conflict between the two conceptions of God
14 | Breeding Terror, or An Uncivilized Clash of Civilizations
Two faces of the same coin
17 | Obama’s Speech in Cairo
PART TWO Fiction and Poetry
18 | Death of an Ex-Minister
The death of His Excellency the ex-Minister
A private letter to an artist friend
20 | A Paper that was Never Presented for Publication
Rewarding the culprit and twice punishing the victim
They said you were shame personified
The sin suspended in history
Inspired by the verdict pronounced by an Al-Azhar sheikh legitimizing the restoration of the hymen
Daughter of Egyptian Isis
22 | Inspired by the Summit Meeting with the Elite
23 | The Impact of Fanatic Religious Thought: A Story of a Young Egyptian Muslim Woman
24 | Twelve Women in a Cell
25 | Feminism in Egypt: A Conversation with Nawal El Saadawi
Working women under Sadat
26 | Fed Up with Limited Thinking
The novel that was stolen
Their heads are veiled but their belly is naked
27 | Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi
Books by Nawal El Saadawi