Well beyond the Arab world El Saadawi's fiction and non-fiction work from Woman at Point Zero
to The Fall of the Imam to her prison memoirs have earned her a reputation as a refreshing
voice of feminism in the Arab World. This series of essays form a selection of El Saadawi's
most recent musings memories and reflections considering the role of women in Egyptian and
wider Islamic society the inextricability of imperialism from the patriarchy the meeting
point of East and West and the image and body politic of the woman in the intersections of
those cultures. These musings leave no stone unturned and no view unchallenged and offer the
interested reader new insight into El Saadawi's thoughts and reflections.
