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A daughter of Isis : the early life of Nawal El Saadawi / Nawal El Saadawi ; translated by Sherif Hetata ; with a foreword by Bettina Aptheker.

By: Language: English Original language: Arabic Publication details: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2009.Description: xii, 354 p. : ill. ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848132320 (pbk.) :
  • 1848132328 (pbk.) :
  • 9781848132313 (hbk.)
  • 184813231X (hbk.)
  • 9781848132320 (pbk.)
  • 1848132328 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PJ7862.A3 A3 2009
Contents:
Allah and McDonald's -- The cry in the night -- God above, husband below -- THank God for our calamities -- Flying with the butterflies -- Killing the bridegroom -- Daughter of the sea -- My revolutionary father -- The lost servant girl -- The village of forgotten employees -- God hid behind the coat-stand -- The ministry of nauseation -- Dreaming of pianos -- To the circus -- The singing man -- The whiskered peasant -- Uncles, suitors and other blood suckers -- A stove for my mother -- Coming to Cairo -- The long, strong bones of a horse -- Love and the hideous cat -- Art thieves -- Mad aunts and abandoned babies -- The house of desolation -- The secret communist -- Wasted lives -- Cholera, ageing and death -- The Qur ̕an betrayed -- British English and Holy Arabic -- The name of Marx -- The brush of history.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection PJ 7862 .A3 A3 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5094970

Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Arabic, probably part of Awrāqī-- Hayātī.

Allah and McDonald's -- The cry in the night -- God above, husband below -- THank God for our calamities -- Flying with the butterflies -- Killing the bridegroom -- Daughter of the sea -- My revolutionary father -- The lost servant girl -- The village of forgotten employees -- God hid behind the coat-stand -- The ministry of nauseation -- Dreaming of pianos -- To the circus -- The singing man -- The whiskered peasant -- Uncles, suitors and other blood suckers -- A stove for my mother -- Coming to Cairo -- The long, strong bones of a horse -- Love and the hideous cat -- Art thieves -- Mad aunts and abandoned babies -- The house of desolation -- The secret communist -- Wasted lives -- Cholera, ageing and death -- The Qur ̕an betrayed -- British English and Holy Arabic -- The name of Marx -- The brush of history.

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