When he got married, his new spouse treated Firdaus poorly and arranged for her to go to boarding school. She and her uncle loved each other, and he allowed her to go to school. Shortly after, both of her parents died, and she went to live with her uncle, an academic in Cairo.įirdaus’s life dramatically improved in Cairo. Her mother discovered her relationship, prohibited it, and circumcised her. She sought refuge in her friends, including a boy named Mohammadain, with whom she experimented sexually. Her family was destitute and lived in the country her earliest memories are plagued by scenes of spouse and child abuse committed by her father. That day, Firdaus invites the psychiatrist to sit on the ground and tells her her life story. The day before her execution, Firdaus accepts a meeting with the psychiatrist. Strangely, she rejected her doctor’s attempt to appeal her death sentence. The woman, Firdaus, awaits the death penalty for murdering a pimp, but no one in contact with her believes her to be capable of such a crime. During one of her visits to Qanatir prison, the psychiatrist is referred to a prisoner whose story is said to be especially powerful. At the time, she had no idea that she would one day be imprisoned for engaging in activism based on her empirical research. The novel begins with an introduction in which the unnamed psychiatrist, the semi-fictionalized Saadawi, recalls her time as a prison psychiatrist in Egypt. The novel is celebrated today as being one of the first novels on the injustices of the sex trade and its relationship to the oppression of women that reached a popular international audience. Firdaus’s character is loosely based on a woman Saadawi met while working as a psychiatrist and researcher on the psychological consequences of incarceration for women in Egypt. Saadawi draws from her own experiences being prosecuted for speaking out against injustices against women in Egypt, painting a sympathetic portrait of victims of the stigmatized, poorly regulated sex industry. Set in Cairo, Egypt, it follows sex worker Firdaus, who commits to her trade out of desperation, murders her abusive pimp, and then awaits her death sentence. Woman at Point Zero is a 1975 novel by Egyptian feminist author and physician Nawal El Saadawi.
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