God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels: God Dies by the Nile, Searching, The Circling Song
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God Dies by the Nile is Saadawi’s attempt to square religion with a society in which women are respected as equals; Searching expresses the poignancy of loss and doubt with the hypnotic intensity of a remembered dream; while in The Circling Song, Saadawi pursues the conflicts of sex, class, gender and military violence deep into the psyche.
Nawal El-Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021) was an internationally renowned feminist writer and activist from Egypt. She founded and became president of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association and co-founded the Arab Association for Human Rights. Among her numerous roles in public office she served as Egypt’s National Director of Public Health and stood as a candidate in the 2004 Egyptian presidential elections. El Saadawi held honorary doctorates from the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso, and her numerous awards include the Council of Europe North-South Prize, the Women of the Year Award (UK), Sean MacBride Peace Prize (Ireland), and the National Order of Merit (France). She wrote over fifty novels, short stories and non-fiction works which centre on the status of Arab women, which have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book contains three novels by Nawal El Saadawi – “God Dies by the Nile”, “Searching”, and “The Circling Song”. The writing in each is riveting with moments of beauty, moments too horrifying to imagine, disturbing dreams, and lives of despair. She struggles with the incongruity of religion and its treatment of women. She gets inside the minds of Arab women who struggle for meaning in their lives and fight oppression daily.Her books were banned in Egypt; she was imprisoned for speaking out against the government; and she later ran for office but had to withdraw under pressure.The vivid, sensitive descriptions place you in their world – the sights, the sounds, the smells, the tastes. You feel the frustration when the characters are dealing with the corrupt government officials. The stories demonstrate how corruption and misuse of religion are able to oppress the poor. These are not pleasant stories but many women live these lives.