She goes on to tell a harrowing story of growing up poor, of being raped by family members, of being genitally mutilated, of being married off as a teenager to a 65-year-old, of being beaten up time and again, of taking to the streets, of becoming a prostitute, and eventually of having had enough, and of murdering a man, leading to her imprisonment. I have no time to listen to you,” Firdaus begins. She has been agitating against the oppression of women, including genital mutilation, since the early 1970s.Īlthough fictional, Woman at Point Zero is based on a true account of a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison. Saadawi, who is now 84, trained as a doctor in her native Egypt and was imprisoned by President Anwar al-Sadat in 1981 for alleged “crimes against the state”.
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