Daughter of Isis—Voice of Rebellion
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
"Why did God create me a girl and not a bird that can fly like a pigeon?"
(Nawal el Sa'adawi, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor)
"Wait a moment, please," he says politely. The white-haired man asks TEMPO reporter Zuhaid El Qudsy to sit in the living room. It's so calm in this house on Ma'had Nashir Street in Kornish, Cairo. And tidy. Egyptians know him as Dr. Sherif Hatatah, husband of scholar Nawal el Sa'adawi. During the Anwar Sadat administration, the Egyp
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