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would not lower herShattering his preconceived notions ofacceptable behaviour,the incident leads ulti-  \nThe title story,like the rest in this classiccollection by Egypt's leading writer,drawsuniversal resonance from the particulars ofArab society to cast a fresh and moving per-ception on sexual politics,repressed emo-tions,the meaning of life and love.  \nSaadawi has an astounding ability to enterinto the psyche and interior thought pro-cesses of a diverse array of characters..she is a writer not afraid to push the bound-aries of her imagination.These are powerfulstories that are written simply and directly,making them all the more poignant and  \n# Women's Review\n\n'Brilliant..about love,between men andwomen and between parent and child,aboutbrutality,both physical and emotional,andabout the extraordinary force that comesfrom one person looking straight into theeyes of another.Nawal EI Saadawi is a pow-erful critic but she isn't a harsh feminist.translation is excellent'  \nPublishing News  \nISBN 0-7493-9950-3  \nDesign:Claire Hegarty  \nW7-CMO-511  \n# DEATHOF ANEX-MINISTER\n\nNawal El Saadawi was born in the village of KafrTahla in Egypt.She trained as a doctor of medicineand rose to become Egypt's Director of PublicHealth.She began writing 30 years ago,producingnovels and short stories and in 1972 published herfirst study of Arab women's problems and theirstruggle for liberation,Women and Sex.She hassuffered at the hands of Egyptian censors beingforced to shift publications of her work to Beirut,andearning her dismissal from the Ministry of Health.She writes in Arabic but has published severalbooks in English,including Woman at Point Zero andThe Hidden Face of Eve.  \nBy the same author  \nNON-FICTION  \n# The Hidden Face of Eve\n\nMemoirs from the Women's PrisonWomen and Sex*My Travels Around the World  \nFICTION  \nWoman at Point ZeroGod Dies by the NileTwo Women in One  \n*She Has No Place in Paradise*The Fall of the Imam  \nDRAMA  \nTwelve Women in One Cell  \n*Available in Minerva  \nMinerva  \n# DEATHOF ANEX-MINISTER\n\nNawal EI Saadawi  \nTranslated by Shirley Eber  \nA Minerva Paperback  \nDEATH OF AN EX-MINISTER  \nFirst published in Great Britain 1987by Methuen London LtdThis Minerva edition published 1992by Mandarin PaperbacksMichelin House,81 Fulham Road,London SW36RB  \nMinerva is an imprint of the Octopus Publishing Group,a division of Reed International Books Limited  \nCopyright Nawal EI Saadawi 1987Translation Shirley Eber 1987  \nA CIP catalogue record for this titleis available from the British Library  \nISBN 0749399503  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britainby Cox &Wyman Ltd,Reading,Berks  \nThis book is sold subject to the conditionthat it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,resold,hired out,or otherwise circulatedwithout the publisher’s prior consent in any formof binding or cover other than that in whichit is published and without a similar conditionincluding this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaser.  \nContents  \n1 The Death of His Excellency theEx-Minister (Cairo,1974)   7  \n2 The Veil (Addis Ababa,1978)29  \n3 The Greatest Crime (Kafr Tahla,Egypt,1970)  37  \n4 Masculine Confession (Cairo,1969)   53  \n5 A Modern Love Letter  \n(Alexandria,1969)   63  \n6 In Camera (Beirut,1979)  75  \n7 A Private Letter to an Artist Friend(Cairo,1977)  97  \nThe Death ofHis Excellencythe Ex-Minister","cbCaigjK2lZzQ7ib","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigjK2lZzQ7ib","pdf",4703499,116,"English","# Contents\n## The Death of His Excellency the Ex-Minister (Cairo, 1974)\n## The Veil (Addis Ababa, 1978)\n## The Greatest Crime (Kafr Tahla, Egypt, 1970)\n## Masculine Confession (Cairo, 1969)\n## A Modern Love Letter (Alexandria, 1969)\n## In Camera (Beirut, 1979)\n## A Private Letter to an Artist Friend (Cairo, 1977)","[{\"question\":\"What triggers the central incident in “The Death of His Excellency the Ex-Minister”?\",\"answer\":\"A government minister encounters a junior woman 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