Translated from the Arabic. - Translation originally published: South Africa : David Philip, 2002
About this Series; Foreword; 1 The Threat; 2 Spreading My Wings; 3 The Village Doctor; 4 The Tripartite Invasion; 5 What is Suppressed Always Comes Back; 6 Love and Despair; 7 My Mother Has No Place in Paradise; 8 Moments that Belong Nowhere; 9 The Death Threat; 10 Beyond Consciousness; 11 The Photograph; 12 The Scalpel and the Law; 13 The Defeat; 14 Searching for Love; 15 An Aborted Revolution; 16 The Dream of Flying
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women. Walking through Fire takes up the story of her extraordinary life. Famous for her novels, short stories and writings on women, Saadawi is known as the first Arab woman to have written about sex and its relation to economics and politics
