لابد من التمرد ضد كل ما هو موروث ، ومحاولة أخذ منه كل ما هو معقول فقط الفكرة أكثر من رائعة نوال السداوي تبث بكل أفكارها حول الدين والمراة والمجتمع والرجل ، خليط من كل جوانب الحياةتُشعرك بسلبية ومدي دناسة النفس البشرية وأن لا بد لها من ترويضاسئلتها الوجودية لا تعتبر دليل على كفرها بل أعجبني فكرة ا...
She could not believe that so much had happened in so short a time. But Saleem’s blue-black eyes attested to her existence and the fact that she was not dreaming. When he disappeared into the adjoining room, things around her would lose existence and reality. When he returned and their eyes met, ...
All I did know at that time was that I was a girl. I used to hear it from my mother all day long. ‘Girl!’ she would call, and all it meant to me was that I wasn’t a boy and I wasn’t like my brother. My brother’s hair was cut short but otherwise left free and uncombed, while mine was allowed to gr...
Half a line of poor quality newsprint run off by the printers: Woman goes on leave and does not return. It was a normal thing for people to vanish. Every day the sun came out and so did the newspapers. In some corner of an inside page was a personal column. The word ‘personal’ could be suppressed...
My old sweetheart Katie fled over there, and I have heard many tales and myths, like those of The Thousand and One Nights, about it. I have heard about lust in the eyes and molten gold in the earth, yet here I am in a room without heating. I change from one train to another under the ground. I wo...
Now she never slept, or even closed her eyes. They pierced the darkness to the other side of the lane where rose the huge iron gate of the Mayor’s house. She did not know exactly what she was waiting for. But as soon as she saw the blue eyes appear between the iron bars she stood up. She did not ...