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    Woman at Point Zero

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    Woman at Point Zero is a novel based on Nawal El Saadawi's conversation with a female prisoner in Egypt who was executed in 1973. It tells the fictional story of Firdaus, a reluctant prostitute sentenced to death for murdering her pimp. Firdaus shares her life story with a psychologist, recounting a life of abuse, oppression and lack of autonomy as a woman in Egypt, experiencing genital mutilation, forced marriage, abandonment and exploitation. Having reached her breaking point after further abuse, she kills her pimp but welcomes her own death sentence as an escape from a life without free will or opportunity.

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    Woman at Point Zero is a novel based on Nawal El Saadawi's conversation with a female prisoner in Egypt who was executed in 1973. It tells the fictional story of Firdaus, a reluctant prostitute sentenced to death for murdering her pimp. Firdaus shares her life story with a psychologist, recounting a life of abuse, oppression and lack of autonomy as a woman in Egypt, experiencing genital mutilation, forced marriage, abandonment and exploitation. Having reached her breaking point after further abuse, she kills her pimp but welcomes her own death sentence as an escape from a life without free will or opportunity.

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    Woman at Point Zero is a novel based on Nawal El Saadawi's conversation with a female prisoner in Egypt who was executed in 1973. It tells the fictional story of Firdaus, a reluctant prostitute sentenced to death for murdering her pimp. Firdaus shares her life story with a psychologist, recounting a life of abuse, oppression and lack of autonomy as a woman in Egypt, experiencing genital mutilation, forced marriage, abandonment and exploitation. Having reached her breaking point after further abuse, she kills her pimp but welcomes her own death sentence as an escape from a life without free will or opportunity.

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    Woman at Point Zero

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    Raees Ali Yar
    Woman at Point Zero is a novel based on Nawal El Saadawi's conversation with a female prisoner in Egypt who was executed in 1973. It tells the fictional story of Firdaus, a reluctant prostitute sentenced to death for murdering her pimp. Firdaus shares her life story with a psychologist, recounting a life of abuse, oppression and lack of autonomy as a woman in Egypt, experiencing genital mutilation, forced marriage, abandonment and exploitation. Having reached her breaking point after further abuse, she kills her pimp but welcomes her own death sentence as an escape from a life without free will or opportunity.

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    ''Woman at Point Zero,'' written by Nawal El Saadawi, is a novel based on the author's

    conversation with a female prisoner who was executed at Qanatir, a penitentiary in Egypt, in
    1973.

    Woman at Point Zero

    Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Sadaawi, tells the fictional story of a reluctant prostitute who
    has been sent to prison in Cairo, Egypt, for murdering her pimp and who's preparing to be
    executed. Having herself been previously jailed in 1981 for protesting the mistreatment of
    women, Nawal El Sadaawi empathizes with the victim in this fictitious tale of what happens
    when a person has long since passed his or her breaking point.

    Synopsis

    Firdaus, the protagonist, has been a victim throughout her entire life. After confessing to the
    murder of her pimp, she is sent to prison to die. Firdaus eventually agrees to share her life story
    with a female psychologist and writer, including how she saw her father hurting her mother and
    how her own uncle assaulted her as a child. As a young lady, Firdaus was genitally mutilated and
    endured a forced teenage marriage to a man nearly five decades her senior. She had no
    relationships that did not end in abandonment, even with the pimps who carelessly took
    advantage of her. As a female in Egypt, any attempts to improve her financial and social
    positions never came to fruition. Now her destiny is to live without free will, education, or
    ambition.

    With no idea of how to have healthy, positive interactions with others, Firdaus flails her way
    through life, simply trying to survive its tortures. After being hit by Marzouk, her current pimp,
    she finally reaches the point of no return, unapologetically killing Marzouk out of rage and
    terror. Waiving several opportunities to appeal her death sentence, Firdaus welcomes her fate.
    Ironically, she is excited about the prospect of dying as a means of living. After her hanging, she
    believes that she will finally possess herself, instead of being owned by the government, religion,
    and the opposite sex.

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