God Dies By The Nile

Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0862322952

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God Dies by the Nile by Nawāl Saʻdāwī Pdf

Nawal el Saadawi's classic tale attempts to square Islam with a society in which women are respected as equals is as relevant today as ever. 'People have become corrupt everywhere. You can search in vain for Islam, or a devout Muslim. They no longer exist.' Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?"

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755651610

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God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the Nile, Saadawi's dark parable of poverty, female exploitation, injustice and religious hypocrisy in rural Egypt. In Searching the disappearance of her lover causes Fouda to question everything. Circling Song is a hypnotic meditation on gender, class and state violence told through the story of two mysterious twins.

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1842778773

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God Dies by the Nile by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

This translation originally published: 1985.

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755651498

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Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born into poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her childhood dreams and ambitions had been met with neglect and abuse by the world and the men who rule it. Driven to sex work to support herself, she is faced with the moral outrage of society and the bitter knowledge that for a woman, true freedom comes only when all hope is abandoned. In Woman at Point Zero, Firdaus tells her unforgettable story. Woman at Point Zero is also available in audiobook format from audiobook retailers.

Author : Nawāl El Saadāwī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1203681158

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God Dies by the Nile by Nawāl El Saadāwī Pdf

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780755651580

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A Daughter of Isis by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780863567339

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Love in the Kingdom of Oil by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

A woman disappears without trace. Nobody, including the police commissioner investigating the case, can understand how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in the Kingdom of Oil where His Majesty reigns supreme, no woman has ever dared disobey the command of men. When the woman finally reappears, there is a blurring between the men in her life, as she leaves one to join another, then returns to her first husband who has since taken a new wife. She is trapped in a man-made web, unable to escape from a male figure who continually fills urns that she must carry.

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466868212

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River God by Wilbur Smith Pdf

Tanus is the fair-haired young lion of a warrior whom the gods have decreed will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shattered halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle's glory: possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled cedar--destined for the adoration of a nation, and the love of one extraordinary man. International bestselling author Wilbur Smith, creator of over two dozen highly acclaimed novels, draws readers into a magnificent, richly imagined Egyptian saga. Exploding with all the drama, mystery, and rage of ancient Egypt, River God is a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.

Author : Nawāl El Saadāwī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1203509941

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The Hidden Face of Eve by Nawāl El Saadāwī Pdf

Author : DiAnn Mills
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802479785

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When the Nile Runs Red by DiAnn Mills Pdf

Paul Farid was once a member of the royal family who openly persecuted any Sudanese who failed to practice Islam. Now he's a Christian who puts his life on the line to aid the persecuted Sudanese. His wife, Larson, is a doctor committed to giving her life for peace. Colonel Ben Alier has fought for twenty-one years against the government's mandates to control the oil, religion, slavery, and politics of Sudan. He neither trusts nor rests any hope in the newly formed government. Ben's health deteriorates while Larson finds out she is going to have a baby. Their worlds collide, and as the relational tensions escalate so does the physical danger.

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780863567230

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body. After years of denying her own desires, the doctor begins a series of love affairs that allow her to explore her sexuality – on her own terms.

Author : Safi Abdi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Somalia
ISBN : 9781410794093

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Offspring of Paradise by Safi Abdi Pdf

Author : Stephanie Thornton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101607671

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Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton Pdf

Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh’s pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile’s marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome accident arising from Hatshepsut’s games forces her to confront her guilt...and sets her on a profoundly changed course. Hatshepsut enters a loveless marriage with her half brother, Thut, to secure his claim to the Isis Throne and produce a male heir. But it is another of Thut’s wives, the commoner Aset, who bears him a son, while Hatshepsut develops a searing attraction for his brilliant adviser Senenmut. And when Thut suddenly dies, Hatshepsut becomes de facto ruler, as regent to her two-year-old nephew. Once, Hatshepsut anticipated being free to live and love as she chose. Now she must put Egypt first. Ever daring, she will lead a vast army and build great temples, but always she will be torn between the demands of leadership and the desires of her heart. And even as she makes her boldest move of all, her enemies will plot her downfall.... Once again, Stephanie Thornton brings to life a remarkable woman from the distant past whose willingness to defy tradition changed the course of history.

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520216520

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The Innocence of the Devil by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful denunciation of patriarchy in its many forms: social, political, and religious. Set in an insane asylum, The Innocence of the Devil is a complex and chilling novel that recasts the relationships of God and Satan, of good and evil. Intertwining the lives of two young women as they discover their sexual and emotional powers, Saadawi weaves a dreamlike narrative that reveals how the patriarchal structures of Christianity and Islam are strikingly similar: physical violation of women is not simply a social or political phenomenon, it is a religious one as well. While more measured in tone than Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Saadawi's novel is similar in its linguistic, literary, and philosophical richness. Evoking a world of pain and survival that may be unfamiliar to many readers, it speaks in a universal voice that reaches across cultures and is the author's most potent weapon.

Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408839935

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The Nile by Toby Wilkinson Pdf

From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – fishing, farming, flooding – continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo – and in Egypt's earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) – the Nile is our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.