This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the
Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published,
more than a quarter of a century ago. Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a
powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her
society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt,
witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including
female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering.
She goes on to explore the causes of the situation through a discussion
of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Saadawi
argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible
with the essence of Islam or any human faith. The Hidden Face of Eve
remains a classic of modern Arab writing.
The Hidden Face of Eve : Women in the Arab World - Nawal El-Saadawi
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