Contributions

  • Ḥatātah, Sharīf - Contributor

Publication

2002 - Zed, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

62,750 words, Guess

Page Count

251 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001045300
  • LibraryThing1038627
  • Goodreads159602

Classifications

  • LCCPJ7862.A3 Z478 2002

Description

"Walking through Fire shows the passion for justice that has shaped her life and her writing. We read about her as a rural doctor, trying to help a young girl escape from a terrible fate imposed on her by a brutal male tyranny. We follow her attempts to set up women's organizations and to publish magazines later banned by the authorities or endangered by fundamentalist threats. We travel with her into exile after the publication of her name on a death list. We witness her first marriage to a freedom fighter hounded into drug addiction by a system that has no mercy. We share her struggle against her 'false self' and a second husband who offers her financial security and comfort - provided she stops writing. We live the beautiful moments of her third marriage with a man released after fourteen years of imprisonment and hard labour, and the love, companionship, shared struggle and the differences between them."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

EgyptBiographySaʻdāwī, NawālEgyptian AuthorsWomen physiciansAuthors, EgyptianArab Women authors

Times

Genres

  • Biography

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