Tamara Mitchell
Professor Nancy Gilbert
English 1102
April 7, 2014
Johnson-Davies, Denys. "Nawal El Saadawi." The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction. New York. Anchor Books, 2006.364.Print.
This essay is a short biography about Nawal El Saadawi. Saadawi is a trained doctor and published many books. She is also the second most widely read Arab writer in the world. Saadawi was born in a small Egyptian village and became well known in the 1970s for her books exposing the sexual and cultural oppression of Arab women. She was then put in prison by Egyptian president in 1981. Once released, she left Egypt in the 1990s and came to the United States because she was getting threatened by Muslim fundamentalists. Once she got to the United States she taught a number of American universities and became a "controversial figure."
This essay offers of background information on her. The information in the essay seems to be accurate because I compared it to that same information in several other sources. This essay doesn’t scenes a personal opinion or feeling towards a subject. It just states facts. However, the essay is not very comprehensive. This is because it’s a short essay. It does not so into depth or give allot of details. Also this book isn’t all that current. It was published in 2006.
Saadawi, Nawal El. "She Has No Place in Paradise." Ed. Johnson-Davies, Denys. New York. Anchor Books, 2006.365-373.Print.
This is a story about a woman named Zeinab who was taught that she was placed here on earth for one reason only, to please the men and do exactly as they demanded. She took ongoing abuse throughout her whole life. However, her mother told her that she would have paradise one day. She often found herself daydreaming of ...
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Manhattan's Brecht Forum hosted three remarkable women, who reported on the conflicts and popular uprisings transforming the Middle East. First to speak was Dr. Nawal el-Saadawi, author of many books that explore Arab women's sexuality and legal status, including The Hidden Face of Eve, Daughter of Isis, and Woman at Point Zero. Her activism has led to threats on her life, loss of her position as Egypt's director of public health, imprisonment in 1981 and exile to the U.S. in 1988. “I have survived the events of my life because of the pleasures of writing. The revolution gives me the same pleasure." Saadawi enthusiastically threw her support behind those defending workers' rights in Madison, Wisconsin, but she encouraged Americans to demand even more change--Egyptian-style.
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Ibn Munqidh, Usama. "From Memoirs." McNeill, William and Marilyn Robinson Waldman. The Islamic World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973. 184-206.
Critics have already begun a heated debate over the success of the book that has addressed both its strengths and weaknesses. The debate may rage for a few years but it will eventually fizzle out as the success of the novel sustains. The characters, plot, emotional appeal, and easily relatable situations are too strong for this book to crumble. The internal characteristics have provided a strong base to withstand the petty attacks on underdeveloped metaphors and transparent descriptions. The novel does not need confrontations with the Middle East to remain a staple in modern reading, it can hold its own based on its life lessons that anyone can use.
Joyce, James. “Araby”. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Eds. R.V. Cassill and Richard Bausch. Shorter Sixth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000. 427 - 431.
Joyce, James. “Araby.” The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition. Eds. Jerome Beaty, Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter, and Kelly J. Mays. New York: W.W.Norton.
In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story
of her own life as well as a critical study of characters and events during the
In Hanan Al-Shaykh’s “The Women’s Swimming Pool,” a young girl convinces her grandmother to take her to Beirut so she could swim in the women’s swimming pool and see the sea. The youthful, curious point of view that this story is in shows the readers that women are expected to act and dress in proper ways that are acceptable to the testosterone driven society from such an early and innocent age as the protagonist. The grandmother is so worried about the certainty of the pool being for women only that she tells the young girl “if any man were to see you, you’d be done for, and so would you mother and father and your grandfather, the religious scholar- and I’d be done for more than anyone because it’s I who agreed to this and helped you.” (Norton Anthology of World Literature, pg. 1168) The grandmother is so worried that she makes the young girl swear by her mother’s grave. This, and the fact that Islamic custom requires girls and women to keep their hair, arms, and legs covered despite the sweltering heat, shows just how conservative the life for the young girl and her grandmother is. Although the young girl is able to see how beautiful the sea truly is, she is not able to swim in the pool that she traveled all that way for because it was time to pray. As her grandmother begins to pray, the young girl realizes that Beirut is a different world than what she is used to, and that she is bound to her traditional
One of the most famous contemporary ethnographic studies of women and gender within Islam is Erika Friedl’s Women of Deh Koh, in which her main concern seems to be providing he...
Hilāl, ʻAlī Al-Dīn. Islamic Resurgence in the Arab World. New York, NY: Praeger, 1982. Print.
... she addressed many problems of her time in her writings. She was an inspirational person for the feminism movements. In fact, she awoke women’s awareness about their rights and freedom of choice. She was really a great woman.
Haddawy, Husain. The Arabian Nights. Rpt in Engl 123 B16 Custom Courseware. Comp. Lisa Ann Robertson. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta, 2014. 51-64. Print.
Joyce, James. "Araby." 1914. Literature and Ourselves. Henderson, Gloria, ed. Boston, Longman Press. 2009. 984-988.
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she is only 16-year-old from an Islamic country leading the first vital step towards raising the status of women in the Arab region is undoubtedly laudable. Indeed, she deserves to be called an ideal person of all girls in the world, who fight against any obstacles that abuse women’s individual rights. She is raising confidence to all girls and urging them to speak out what they want to be and ask for what they should have
The book begins with an attempt on Zainab’s life, presumably by Nasir’s forces. Later, the Muslim Ladies Group is banned when Zainab refuses Nasir’s offer to join the Socialist Union. She then engages in secret meetings with Muslims in h...