Her writings and her professional career as a physician and psychiatrist were dedicated to political and sexual rights for women. nawal el saadawi, egyptian public health physician, psychiatrist, author, advocate of women’ s rights, and founder of the arab women’ s solidarity association ( awsa). xiii, 142 pages ; 20 cm " nawal el nawal el saadawi pdf saadawi' s highly acclaimed feminist novel, woman at point zero, follows the life of firdaus, an egyptian peasant girl, from her childhood of incomprehensible cruelty and neglect to her end in a grimy cairo prison cell. saadawi, nawal publication date 1985 topics arabic fiction, arabic fiction, arabic fiction publisher london : zed books collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; 365- books- by- women- authors; additional_ collections contributor internet archive language english access- restricted- item true addeddate: 13: 57 boxid ia131813 nawal el saadawi is a prolific writer who has received both praise and criticism for her focus on women' s victimization and exploitation in patriarchal muslim cultures. el saadawi 1990b) or to have an anthology of her own nonfiction writing published ( the nawal el saadawi reader [ 1997] ). download books nawal el saadawi pdf nawal el saadawi ( 1 ratings) nawal el saadawi ( arabic: ■■■■ ■■■■■■■■) was born in 1931, in a small village outside cairo. her works are living. unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the university of cairo medical school in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. more than those that address middle east specialists, these anthologies play a crucial role in es- tablishing el saadawi in the western academy as a celebrity and a represen- tative arab writer.