Woman at Point Zero Summary
Woman at Point Zero Summary
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BookRags Encyclopedia Entry....................................................................................1 Woman at Point Zero............................................................................................1 Copyright Information..........................................................................................1 Woman at Point Zero Summary ..................................................................................2 Woman at Point Zero............................................................................................2 by Nawal El Saadawi ......................................................................................2 . Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place.....................................2 The Novel in Focus ........................................................................................10 Events in History at the Time the Novel Was Written..................................16
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Woman at Point Zero
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Woman at Point Zero Summary
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (also spelled Nawal Sa’− dawi) was born in the Egyptian village of Kafr Tahla in the Nile Delta province of Qalubiyya in 1931. Her high scores on national examinations permitted her to enter the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University during a time when the student population was still heavily male. She practiced both general medicine and psychiatry, became Director of Health Education for Egypt, edited the popular magazine Health,
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BookRags Encyclopedia Entry....................................................................................1 Woman at Point Zero............................................................................................1 Copyright Information..........................................................................................1 Woman at Point Zero Summary ..................................................................................2 Woman at Point Zero............................................................................................2 by Nawal El Saadawi ......................................................................................2 . Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place.....................................2 The Novel in Focus ........................................................................................10 Events in History at the Time the Novel Was Written..................................16
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BookRags Encyclopedia Entry
Woman at Point Zero
For the online version of BookRags ' Woman at Point Zero Summary, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/research/woman−at−point−zero−wlait/
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World Literature and Its Times. ©2008 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved. (c)2000−2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
BookRags Encyclopedia Entry
1
Woman at Point Zero Summary
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (also spelled Nawal Sa’− dawi) was born in the Egyptian village of Kafr Tahla in the Nile Delta province of Qalubiyya in 1931. Her high scores on national examinations permitted her to enter the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University during a time when the student population was still heavily male. She practiced both general medicine and psychiatry, became Director of Health Education for Egypt, edited the popular magazine Health,