
Zed Books of London has recently reissued God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels and The Hidden Face of Eve. She doesn’t compromise because in many ways the condition of women in the Middle East has not changed much and because there is an ethos that, she believes, demands interrogation.

I’m proud because I didn’t compromise.” Her insistence on sharing her view of the truth on the condition of women, religion, and politics is the key to the continued interest in her works. Not because I did fantastic things, but because I never changed. In a 2012 interview, now eighty-four-year-old Nawal El Saadawi confessed that “I’m proud of myself.


God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels. London.
