![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike other incarcerated women there, Firdaus refuses to see or speak to anyone. The prison doctor tells Saadawi that the woman has too much of a “gentle” face to be a murderer. She is told about a woman held there named Firdaus, who is described as being unlike anyone else. Nawal El Saadawi is a researcher interested in documenting incarcerated women while visiting Egypt’s infamously brutal Qanatir Prison. Following the life of a woman hours before her death, Saadawi documents Firdaus’s story for her. Readers transfix to its entire 114 pages: not a single page is skipped, not a single word is missed. ![]() While published in 1975, decades ago, the novel resurfaces ceaseless issues. Woman At Point Zero, written by Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi, is the most captivating and heart-wrenching text I have ever read. It shook me to my core, stressing the inescapable reality of what life is for many women and femmes, inflaming within me an inexorable sense of rage. “I am saying that you are criminals, all of you: the fathers, the uncles, the husbands, the pimps, the lawyers, the doctors, the journalists, and all men of all professions” CW: sexual assault, violence, female genital mutilation ![]()
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