Recommended Reading/Browsing:

Egypt

• Egypt (Wikipedia | Britannica World Atlas | CIA World Factbook)

Nawal el Saadawi

• Biography/Bibliography:
  • Postcolonial Studies @ Emory
  • Books and Writers (Petri Liukkonen)
  • Wikipedia
• Profiles and Interviews:
  • Rachel Cooke, "Nawal El Saadawi: 'Do You Feel You Are Liberated? I Feel I Am Not'" (The Observer 11 October 2015)
  • "Women and Girls Are Beside Boys in the Streets" (interview with Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 31 January 2011)
  • Jenna Krajeski, "Postcard from Egypt: Rebellion" (New Yorker 14 March 2011): el Saadawi's involvement in Tahrir Square and the Eqyptian revolution (see also "Egypt: Revolution in Progress" [Al Jazeera English])
  • Brian Belton and Clare Dowding, "Nawal el Saadawi - A Creative and Dissident Life" (infed.org)
  • Profile on Al-Jazeera (20 May 2004)
  • Other appearances on Democracy Now!
• Translated Work Online:
  • Eight online reads (via Arab Literature [in English])
• Other Selected Criticism:
  • Amal Amireh, "Problems and Prospects for Publishing in the West: Arab Women Writers Today" (Al-Jadid 2:10 [August 1996]) (Analyzes Saadawi's critical reception in light of a vogue for Arab women writers in the West)

More on Arab/Muslim/Egyptian Feminism:

• M. Lynx Qualey, "Translating, or Mistranslating, Arab Feminisms" (Arab Literature [in English] 8 March 2015)
• Mona Abaza, "Intimidation and Resistance: Imagining Gender in Cairene Grafitti" (Jadaliyya 30 June 2013)
• Fatima Mernissi, from The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam
• See also the "Women in/and Islam" section of the General Reference page of the course website