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“For forty years I heard Samia utter both slogans in one breath: Down with the institution of marriage! Down with imperialism and Zionism! Forty years passed without Samia being freed from her husband, Rifa’a, and without Egypt being freed from imperialism and Zionism.”
Nawal El Saadawi’s memoirs are an intimate encounter with herself, opening pages of the past, questioning and clarifying them, allowing her to speak freely without fear or hesitation. She narrates, recounts, criticizes, accuses, and exposes the buried and hidden social and political ills, customs, and traditions. The reader sometimes agrees with her, sometimes disagrees, but remains immersed in the narrative atmosphere, preparing themselves with their feelings, emotions, and thoughts to accept others, to empathize with them, and to interact with them on all levels.
In the third part of her autobiography, Nawal El Saadawi continues to challenge taboo subjects. Having practiced medicine and surgery, her pen becomes like a comb, dissecting the body of society, excising the disease at its root, and prompting us to question what we have clung to for millennia, what we have considered final, indisputable truths.
In this autobiography, the word transforms into a revolutionary act, a courageous deed that sometimes shocks us, but ultimately forces us to break free from our shells and galvanizes us to confront ourselves and others without pretense.
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