Two women in one

Nawal El Saadawi

Original title: Imraʾatān fī imraʾah

first published 1985 Seal Press, 1986 124 pages

Women in translation]

Two Women in One is the story of Bahiah Shaheen, an 18-year-old medical student and daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official. She finds the male students in her class rough, coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart, and the young woman has long ceased to be surprised at not being her real self in his presence. But what, she wonders, is this real self? Of one thing she is certain: it...

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Two women in one edition · 1991 · Women in Translation · 124 pages
Two women in one edition · 1986 · Seal Press · 124 pages
Two women in one edition · 1985 · Al Saqi · 124 pages

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