I think her life has been one long death threat. At a time when nobody else was talking, she spoke the unspeakable

Margaret Atwood

Nawal El Saadawi writes with directness and passion, transforming the systematic brutalisation of peasants and of women into powerful allegory.

The New York Times

This book will look you dead in the eye… I thoroughly recommend this book because it will make you examine the ways in which people in impossible situations can retain dignity and control over themselves. Read it wide-eyed

Books By Broads

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

Financial Times

El Saadawi has a flair for melodrama and mystery

International Journal of Middle East Studies

A powerful indictment of the treatment of women in many parts of the Middle East, Labour Herald Woman at Point Zero should begin the long march towards a realistic and sympathetic portrayal of Arab women

Middle East International