The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Subversive in her life, political in her writings
Adele Newson-Horst pays tribute to the great Egyptian writer NAWAL EL SAADAWI
UNCOMPROMISING: Nawal El Saadawi
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
NOVELIST, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on March 21 at the age of 89.
The author of more than 50 books, she once told me in one of our many interviews that she self-identified as “an African from Egypt, not from the Middle East … I am not from the Third World. There is one world, that is a racist, capitalist economic world.
“I became a feminist when I was a child — when I started to ask questions to become aware that women are oppressed and feel discrimination.”
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