God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels: God Dies by the Nile, Searching, The Circling Song

About Nawal El Saadawi

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 Sadats government for criticising the regime she founded the Arab Womens 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.