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Freedom for people, especially women in a third world country such as Egypt, can be very costly. In the novel Woman at Point Zero, the main character Firdaus could only attain freedom through her death. In Egypt, women face abuse in some way or another, throughou ....

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.... imposed by both religion and colonial oppression on most women of rural origin. She qualified as a medical doctor in 1955 and rose to become Egypt's Director of Public Health in 1958 (Speace 1). Since she began to write over twenty-five years ago, her books have concentrated on women (Hafez 450-451). In 1972, her first non-fiction book, Woman and Sex, evoked the antagonism of highly placed political and theological authorities. She was dismissed from the Ministry of Health and her position as editor of Health magazine due to the opposition (Speace 3). Saadawi also lost her status as Assistant General Secretary in the Medical Association in ....