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El Arabiya in 2018.  \nCopyright © Masr El Arabia for Publishing and Distribution 2019  \nEnglish translation copyright © Nariman Youssef 2019  \nThe rights of Nawal El Saadawi to be identified as the author of this work have been asserted in accordance with Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nAll rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher.  \nISBN 978-1-909942-43-1 e-ISBN 978-1-909942-44-8  \nTypeset in Minion Pro by MacGuru Ltd Printed in the United Kingdom  \n[www.gingko.org.uk](www.gingko.org.uk)[ ](www.gingko.org.uk)@GingkoLibrary  \nThe opinions expressed in this volume are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Gingko Library.  \nContent  \nPublisher ’s Note  \nGravity and the Forbidden Apple The Most Pious Men in the World How Far from My Parents Have We Come?  \nA Sweet Murderous Woman My Life’s Companion  \nMy Cousin Naima’s Son No Virtue Without Freedom A Letter from a Woman Prisoner The Girl Outside the Court A Girl’s Death  \nCan We Not Even Wonder? Not an Ideal Woman Religion, Women and Cinema  \nAbsolute Certainty and the Virus of Doubt Taleq, Professor!  \nHercules and Antaeus  \nDefamation of Religion and Al-Gama‘a in Ramadan Reading Patriarchy in Egyptian History Psychiatry and Atheism  \nEconomics, Sex and Personal Status Law How Costly is the Service of Religion? Memories in the Mother Tongue No Objectivity in a Violent World Equality in Oppression  \nPolitical Islam  \nBetween Two Seas  \nWhen Does the Fall Begin?  \nWith Knowledge Comes Pleasure The Price of Writing  \nAn Old Friend  \nNour ’s Buried Memories A Study of Philosophy and Change  \nPublisher’s Note  \nShe has been called the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World: Nawal El Saadawi – public health physician, psychiatrist, author and advocate of women’s rights.  \nBorn in Kafr Tahlah, Egypt, on 27 October 1931, Dr Saadawi has fought all her life for women to be accorded rights over their own bodies. She has campaigned against the brutal harm caused by FGM, fought for a woman’s right to pass on her name to her child, and has tirelessly stood up for women’s rights in divorce, property and inheritance cases. For her beliefs and endeavours Nawal El Saadawi has endured imprisonment and exile. Her publications have brought her acclaim and criticism in equal measure. She stood as a presidential candidate at an age when others might consider retirement. ‘At a time when nobody was talking,’ Margaret Atwood said when interviewed for BBC Imagine, ‘[El Saadawi] spoke the unspeakable.’  \nDr Saadawi has never shied away from controversy. In 1968, she founded Health magazine and a year later published Al-mar ’ah wa al-jins (Women and Sex), for which she was expelled from her position at the Ministry of Health. In 1981, she was imprisoned for her involvement with the feminist magazine Confrontation. In 1982, El Saadawi founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA) and later served as editor of the organisation’s publication, Nun. The Egyptian government closed down the magazine and the organisation barely ten years after its foundation. Undeterred, El Saadawi continued her work, publishing and protesting, facing legal challenges from political and religious opponents and, eventually, exile. In 2002, a fundamentalist lawyer tried to forcibly divorce her from her husband. In May 2008 she won a case brought against her by Al-Azhar University that included charges of apostasy and heresy.  \nBy publishing Off Limits, Gingko presents the reader with an original voice, raw and unfiltered, and a powerful representation of feminism in the Middle East. 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