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Surrounded by a coterie of ministers, the Imam rules over an imaginary earthly kingdom.Bint Allah is the Daughter of God, a beautiful illegitimate girl. She is falsely accused by the Imam of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning. Then, during the annual Victory Holiday, the Imam himself is killed.The story of each of these deaths is told repeatedly, as this powerful and poetic novel reveals the underlying hypocrisy of any male-dominated religious state, and the insufferable predicament of women in a society that must ultimately self-destruct.Nawal El Saadawiis an internationally renowned Egyptian writer and feminist. She holds honorary doctorates from the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso.Her many prizes and awards include the Great Minds of the Twentieth Century Prize, awarded by the American Biographical Institute in 2003, the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe and the Premi Internacional Catalunya in 2004.Several of her novels have been translated into English, includingTwo Women in One, Memoirs of a Woman DoctorandLove in the Kingdom of Oil(all Saqi).Translated bySherif Hetata.

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