Nawal El Saadawi is a legend in her own time. This is an ambitious work indeed.

Praise for The Circling Song, American Book Review

This novel is a powerful example of the kind of anger and desperation to which Arab women writers are beginning to give vent.

Praise for The Circling Song, Choice

Nawal El Saadawi's technique is impressive: at once precise, controlled and hypnotic, even in translation. The style and meaning of the book are one. A song with no beginning and no end, the author tells its universal story.

Praise for The Circling Song, Everywoman

The most influential feminist thinker in the Arab world over the past half-century.

Financial Times

Nawal El Saadawi writes with directness and passion

New York Times

Powerfully political.

Praise for God Dies by the Nile, Poetry Nation Review