![]() ![]() ![]() Some critics argue that this was because Saadawi is an Arab woman writing about the lives of non-white, non-western women. She performed numerous in-depth case studies, and 21 of them were published in her 1976 work Women and Neurosis in Egypt, but Firdaus’s story was particularly poignant to Saadawi-so much so that Saadawi was determined to immortalize Firdaus and her story in the form of an exclusive novel.Īlthough it is considered a classic piece of Egyptian feminist fiction, until recently, Woman at Point Zero was left out of the feminist literary canon. Saadawi visited Firdaus and other female prisoners while conducting research on neurosis in Egyptian women. Woman at Point Zero tells the story of Firdaus, a notorious inmate at Qanatir. It was then translated from Arabic and published in English in 1983. After Egyptian publishers rejected the book because of its radical content, Saadawi had it published in Lebanon in 1975. Based on the true story of a female prisoner at the Qanatir Prison in Egypt, Woman at Point Zerois one of Nawal El Saadawi’s most celebrated works. ![]()
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