مذكرات طبيبة

Nawal El Saadawi's first novel follows an unnamed young Egyptian woman who defies her family's expectations to study medicine, becoming a doctor in a society that has no ready place for her. Drawing on El Saadawi's own experience as a female medical student in Cairo, the novel is a fictionalized, first-person coming-of-age account of a woman forging an identity and a career against deep-rooted patriarchal resistance — the seed of the feminist voice El Saadawi would spend the rest of her career developing.