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Firdaus recounts a life shaped by repeated betrayal and abuse, tracing how trust collapses into fear and social alienation. The narrative considers psychological trauma, survival instincts, and the way deprivation at society’s margins can culminate in catastrophic choices. The preface explains the author’s research encounters in Qanatir Prison and the mental-clinic context that inspired the novel.","F O R E W O R D  \nFirdaus is known around the world. It’s true. From Jakarta to Jeddah to Jerusalem and Johannesburg, Muslim and nonMuslim women know this woman, this heroine of Woman at Point Zero. This novel, or rather creative non-fiction, takes the reader into the cell ofa woman the night before her execution.  \nWe enter tentatively and sit quietly, unobtrusively near the door. The room is dark and the air thick with sadness, despair and doom. Gradually, the darkness lightens as our eyes become accustomed to it and we watch a drama unfold between two figures whose interchange will remain forever emblazoned on our minds.  \nA psychiatrist and a dead-woman-walking confront eachother at last. The psychiatrist has wanted to meet Firdaus for weeks, but the prisoner has consistently refused. Then, on her last night on earth she decides to tell her story. Slowly at first and then faster and more urgently, Firdaus recounts a lifetime of betrayal and abuse. She is an orphan who was passed from one abusive guardian to another, and her tale shows how trust is tested and finally erodes, leaving behind only fear and alienation. The person who has been deprived of the ability to  \nvii  \n\n| Woman at Point Zero. indd 7 | 07/09/2015 19:22 |\n| --- | --- |\n\nNAWAL EL SAADAWI  \ntrust lives on the margins of society; she is only barely human. Such a person lives by instinct, without calculation beyond the immediate need to survive the moment.  \nIt does not matter if this story is true or made up, or a bit of both (which it is). What matters is that it unfolds a universal tragedy as great as any of Sophocles, even if without the epic heroes. Unity of time, place and action works once again to pull the spectator into a place of pain that is utterly particular to the players but also universal. Readers cannot but be drawn into the catastrophe of Firdaus’s life in such a way that her hopes and disappointments become theirs. You do not have to be a lost little girl to appreciate how great was Firdaus’s need for her uncle andhow terrible the shock when he abused her. You do not have to be a sex worker to understand how circumstances threw her into the pit of prostitution and how the demons drove her to murder her pimp.  \nYears of teaching this extraordinary book have confirmed what I felt when I first read it decades ago. This is a story that reaches everyone regardless of their gender, nationality or station in life. Read the comments on sites like Amazon for surprised reactions to this book. They all go something like:‘Assigned this book in class, I picked it up with indifference and could not put it down.’ This, I am sure, will be your response also.  \nMiriam Cooke, 2007  \nviii  \n\n| Woman at Point Zero. indd 8 | 07/09/2015 19:22 |\n| --- | --- |\n\nP R E F A C E  \nI wrote this novel after an encounter between me and a woman in Qanatir Prison. A few months before, I had started research on neurosis in Egyptian women, and was able to concentrate most of my time on this work as I was then without a job. Atthe end of 1972 the Minister of Health had removed from me my functions as Director of Health Education and Editor-inChief of the magazine Health. 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