Title: Walking through fire
Description: In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women. Walking through Fire takes up the story of her extraordinary life. Famous for her novels, short stories and writings on women, Saadawi is known as the first Arab woman to have written about sex and its relation to economics and politics.
Subjects: Egyptian Authors, Literature, Biography, Egyptian Women authors, Women authors, Authors, biography, Authors, african, Egypt, biography
People: Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Time periods: 20th century