Two Women in One

By Nawal El Saadawi

Book Overview

Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hardworking, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day proves to be the beginning of her road to self-discovery and the start of her realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible. 'These two women live, to some degree, in every thinking woman.' New York Times Book Review '... an intensely told story ... A valuable opportunity to understand more clearly the currents of thought regarding women in a culture vastly different from the West.' Christian Science Monitor 'At a time when nobody else was talking, [El Saadawi] spoke the unspeakable.' Margaret Atwood, BBC Imagine 'The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab world' The Guardian 'El Saadawi writes with directness and passion' New York Times 'A poignant and brave writer' Marie Claire 'El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism' San Francisco Chronicle

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086356691X
• ISBN13: 9780863566912
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

One of my all time favorites

This is an amazingly strong, moving novel written by a woman who has been exiled from her country because of the glimpses she provides through her writing of women's lives in Arabic society. Two women in One is a haunting work of the choices one woman makes and her struggle to find agency under the power of people who would deny her this, and herself.