A glimpse into Egypt’s Al-Qanatar women’s prison
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140721-a-glimpse-into-egypts-al-qanatar-womens-prison/
A newspaper article about a young Egyptian-Irish woman imprisoned at the Qanatar prison in 2013.
The Question and Answer section for Woman at Point Zero is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Nawal El Saadawi portrays the double colonization of women through the life of the protagonist, Firdaus, showing how she is oppressed by both the patriarchal systems of her own culture and the capitalist and colonial systems that exploit her. This...
Firdaus’s father gives her a piastre after she begs him and does extra chores. This is the first and only piece of money Firdaus holds in her own two hands until she gets her first ten-pound payment from a john. Firdaus compares the moment she...
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