Name: Love in the Kingdom of oil
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Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
ISBN: 9780863566264

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nawal El Saadawi

Publisher

Saqi Books

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780863566264

Edition No.

Synopsis "Love in the Kingdom of oil "

A woman disappears without a trace. The police commissioner investigating the case enquires: was she of dubious morals, was she the rebellious sort? Nobody understands how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in the Kingdom of Oil where His Majesty reigns supreme, no woman has ever dared disobey the command of men. When the woman finally reappears, there is a blurring between the men in her life. In a tangle of dream-like scenarios, she leaves one to become the wife of another, but when she eventually returns to her first husband she finds that he has taken a new wife. She is trapped in a man-made web, unable to escape from a male figure who is always half-asleep and who continually fills urns that she must carry. Surreal and satirical, Love in the Kingdom of Oil is a startling reflection on the limits of female freedom in a society unable and unwilling to shrug off the multiple faces of patriarchy.

Nawal El Saadawi

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(Egypt 1931 - 2021) Born into a wealthy family in Egypt, and at a young age suffered genital mutilation. Studied Medicine at Cairo University. Working as a doctor in Kafr Tahl, she observed the difficulties and inequalities faced by rural women. She was the director of Public Health in Cairo. However, she was dismissed from her position in the Ministry of Health due to her political activities, which also cost her the positions of editor-in-chief of a health newspaper and deputy secretary-general of the Egyptian Medical Association. Between 1973 and 1976, she worked on researching neurosis in women at Ain Shams University, and between 1979 and 1980, she was an advisor to the United Nations for the Women's Program in Africa (CEP) and the Middle East (CEPA). She was imprisoned in 1981 for her opposition to the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel by President Anwar al Sadat. In 1991, after receiving death threats from Islamists, she went into exile in the United States and began working as a professor at the University of Washington. In 1996, she returned to Egypt to continue her activism for women's rights, especially through her written work.

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