Walking Through Fire, 2nd Edition: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi

Walking Through Fire is the second volume of Nawal El Saadawi’s autobiography, the story of her extraordinary adult life. We read of her work as a rural doctor, her attempts to set up women's organizations and to publish magazines and exile after her name appeared on a death list. She talks candidly of her personal struggles and her relationships -- of love, companionship, shared struggle and the differences between them. Nawal El Saadawi has carved a place for herself in the universal struggle against oppression. "Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives," she says. "They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years." "Walking Through Fire is the second volume of Nawal El Saadawi's autobiography, the story of her extraordinary adult life. We read of her work as a rural doctor, her attempts to set up women's organizations and to publish magazines after her name appeared on a death list. She talks candidly of her personal struggles and her relationships - of love, companionship, shared struggle and the differences between them." "Nawal El Saadawi has carved a place for herself in the universal struggle against oppression. "Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives," she says. "They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years."" --Book Jacket About this Series 4 Foreword 10 1 The Threat 14 2 Spreading My Wings 41 3 The Village Doctor 98 4 The Tripartite Invasion 122 5 What is Suppressed Always Comes Back 138 6 Love and Despair 156 7 My Mother Has No Place in Paradise 165 8 Moments that Belong Nowhere 189 9 The Death Threat 204 10 Beyond Consciousness 208 11 The Photograph 220 12 The Scalpel and the Law 234 13 The Defeat 245 14 Searching for Love 260 15 An Aborted Revolution 274 16 The Dream of Flying 289 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. Beautifully repackaged, volume two of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist.