53.Nawal El Saadawi was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo.

The Hidden Face of Eve remains a classic of modern Arab writing. Saadawi argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the essence of Islam or any human faith.

She goes on to explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering. Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. 9781783607471 The Hidden Face of Eve 53.0000 NZD InStock /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books/non-fiction/education-reference/social-sciences /shop/books/non-fiction/education-reference /shop/books This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago.

The hidden face of eve