"...a dreamy poetic sensibility, most evident in her newly released autobiography, Walking Through Fire..." - Sharon Verghis, The Syndey Morning Herald

The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab world. - The Guardian

This is a book we should all be reading... What a hero is Nawal El Saadawi. - Doris Lessing

This powerful autobiography of an amazing woman will shock and inspire you. Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi has been imprisoned, exiled and threatened with death for her writings on Arab women.

Nawal El Saadawi is internationally famous for her novels,short stories and writings on women.El Saadawi is known as the •rst Arab woman to have written about sex and its relation to economics and politics.

Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class.

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