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Woman at Point Zero
First edition (English)
AuthorNawal El Saadawi
Original titleEmra'a enda noktat el sifr
TranslatorSherif Hetata
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic
GenreCreative nonfiction
PublisherBeirut: Dar al-Adab (Arabic)
London: Zed Books (English)
Publication date
1977
Published in English
1983
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages114
OCLC1260661834

Woman at Point Zero (Arabic: امرأة عند نقطة الصفر, Emra'a enda noktat el sifr) is a novel by Nawal El Saadawi written in 1975 and published in Arabic in 1977. The novel is based on Saadawi's meeting with a female prisoner in Qanatir Prison and is the first-person account of Firdaus, a murderess who has agreed to tell her life story before her execution. The novel explores the themes of women and their place within a patriarchal society.

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