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 hard-working, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day sparks her journey of self-discovery and of the realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible.
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Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world’s most influential feminist writers and activists. She is founder and president of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. Her works have been translated into over forty languages and are taught at universities worldwide.