Nawal El Saadawi - Bibliography

Bibliography

Saadawi has written prolifically, placing some of her works online. Her works include:

  • Memoirs of a Woman Doctor (1960, 1980; translated by Catherine Cobham, 1989)
  • Searching (1968; translated by Shirley Eber, 1991)
  • The Death of the Only Man in the World (1974; translated by Sherif Hetata, 1985) Published in English under the title God Dies by the Nile
  • Woman at Point Zero (1975; translated by Sherif Hetata, 1983)
  • The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (1977; transl. by Sherif Hetata, 1980)
  • The Circling Song (1978; transl. by Marilyn Booth, 1989)
  • Death of an Ex-Minister (1980; transl. by Shirley Eber, 1987)
  • She Has No Place in Paradise (1979; transl. by Shirley Eber)
  • Two Women in One (1983; transl. by Osman Nusairi and Jana Gough, 1985)
  • The Fall of the Imam (1987; transl. by Sherif Hetata, 1988)
  • Memoirs from the Women's Prison (1984; transl. by Marilyn Booth, 1994)
  • The Innocence of the Devil (1994; transl. by Sherif Hetata, 1994)
  • North/South: The Nawal El Saadawi Reader (1997)
  • Love in the Kingdom of Oil, translated by Basil Hatim and Malcolm Williams (Saqi Books, 2000)
  • A Daughter of Isis
  • Dissidenza e scrittura (2008)
  • L'amore ai tempi del petrolio, translated by Marika Macco, introduction by Luisa Morgantini, Editrice il Sirente, Fagnano Alto, 2009. ISBN 978-88-87847-16-1

PUBLICATION HISTORY: The following is a complete list of her written works. All originals in Arabic. Many have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, Iranian, Turkish, Urdu, and other 30 languages.

FICTION:
NOVELS (in Arabic):

  • Memoirs of a Woman Doctor (Cairo, 1958)
  • The Absent One (Cairo, 1969)
  • Two Women in One (Cairo, 1971)
  • Woman at Point Zero (Beirut, 1973)
  • The Death of the Only Man on Earth (Beirut, 1975)
  • The Children’s Circling Song (Beirut, 1976)
  • The Fall of the Imam (Cairo, 1987)
  • Ganat and the Devil (Beirut, 1991)
  • Love in the Kingdom of Oil (Cairo, 1993)
  • The Novel (Dar El Hilal Publishers Cairo 2004)
  • Zeina, Novel (Dar Al Saqi Beirut, 2009)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS (in Arabic):

  • I Learnt Love (Cairo, 1957)
  • A Moment of Truth (Cairo, 1959)
  • Little Tenderness (Cairo, 1960)
  • The Thread and the Wall (Cairo, 1972)
  • Ain El Hayat (Beirut, 1976)
  • She was the Weaker (Beirut, 1977)
  • Death of an Ex-minister (Beirut, 1978)
  • Adab Am Kellet Abad (Cairo, 2000)

PLAYS (in Arabic):

  • Twelve Women in a Cell (Cairo, 1984)
  • Isis (Cairo, 1985)
  • God Resigns in the Summit Meeting (1996), published by Madbouli, and other four plays included in her Collected Works (45 books in Arabic ) published by Madbouli in Cairo 2007

NON-FICTION: MEMOIRS (in Arabic):

  • Memoirs in a Women’s Prison (Cairo, 1983)
  • My Travels Around the World (Cairo, 1986)
  • Memoirs of a Child Called Soad (Cairo, 1990)
  • My Life, Part I, Autobiography (Cairo, 1996)
  • My Life, Part II, Autobiography (Cairo, 1998)
  • My Life, Part III, (Cairo, 2001)



BOOKS ( Non Fiction ) (in Arabic):

  • Women and Sex (Cairo, 1969)
  • Woman is the Origin (Cairo, 1971)
  • Men and Sex (Cairo, 1973)
  • The Naked Face of Arab Women (Cairo, 1974)
  • Women and Neurosis (Cairo, 1975)
  • On Women (Cairo, 1986)
  • A New Battle in Arab Women Liberation (Cairo, 1992)
  • Collection of Essays (Cairo, 1998)
  • Collection of Essays (Cairo, 2001)
  • Breaking Down Barriers (Cairo, 2004)



BOOKS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH:

  • The Hidden Face of Eve (London: Zed Books, 1980), re issued 2008
  • Woman at Point Zero (London: Zed Books, 1982), re issued 2008
  • God Dies by the Nile (London: Zed Books, 1984) reissued 2008
  • Circling Song (London: Zed Books, 1986) reissued 2008
  • The Fall of Imam (London: Methuen, 1987) Saqui Books London 2001, 2009
  • Searching (London: Zed Books, 1988) reissued 2008
  • Death of an Ex-minister (London: Methuen, 1987)
  • She has no Place in Paradise (London: Methuen, 1987)
  • My Travel Around the World (London: Methuen, 1985)
  • Memoirs from the Women’s Prison (London: Women’s Press, 1985) (also: University of California Press, USA, 1995)
  • Two Women in One (London: Al-Saqi Books, 1992)
  • Memoirs of a Women Doctor (London: Methuen, 1994) (also: City Lights, USA, 1993)
  • The Well of Life (London: Methuen, 1994)
  • The Innocence of the Devil (London: Methuen, 1994) (also: University of California Press, 1995)
  • Nawal El Saadawi Reader (London: Zed Books, 1997)
  • Vol 11 Nawal El Saadawi Reader (Zed Books 2009)
  • Part I A Daughter of Isis (London: Zed Books, 1999) reissued 2008
  • Part II Walking Through Fire (London: Zed Books, 2002) reissued 2008
  • Love in the Kingdom of oil (London: Alsaqui Books, 2001)

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