Misuse of Islam in El-Saadawi’s God dies by the Nile from a socialist feminist perspective

This essay argues that El-Saadawi, in her novel God Dies by the Nile, does not oppose Islam and does not claim that it is Islam that oppresses women, but rather that it is the abuse of Islam and the melange of Islam, traditions, and superstitions that oppresses the women in Kafr El Teen, which is sy...

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Main Author: Balaa, Luma (author)
Format: article
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/7758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341247
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15692086-12341247
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