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Her crime, the murder of a man. Born into poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her childhood dreams and ambitions had been met with neglect and abuse by the world and the men who rule it. Driven to sex work to support herself, she is faced with the moral outrage of society and the bitter knowledge that for a woman, true freedom comes only when all hope is abandoned. 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When the woman finally reappears, there is a blurring between the men in her life, as she leaves one to join another, then returns to her first husband who has since taken a new wife. She is trapped in a man-made web, unable to escape from a male figure who continually fills urns that she must carry. Surreal and satirical, Love in the Kingdom of Oil is a startling reflection on the limits of female freedom in a patriarchal society.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295106412917,"sku":"9780863566264","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780863566264_72f14ec8-b972-4349-8d43-9f397f28ec02.jpg?v=1786032900"},{"product_id":"9780863563553","title":"Zeina","description":"Distinguished literary critic Bodour is trapped in a loveless marriage and carries with her a dark secret. She fell in love in her youth and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she abandoned on the streets of Cairo. Bodour doesn't know that Zeina has blossomed into one of Egypt's most beloved entertainers. Pining for her estranged daughter, she writes a fictional account of her life in an attempt to find solace. But as the revolution in Cairo begins to gain fire, the novel goes missing and Bodour must find who has stolen it. Will her hunt for the thief bring mother and daughter together? Or is Bodour destined to lose her daughter to Cairo forever?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295161233781,"sku":"9780863563553","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780863563553_02f0df01-4ef9-45db-aaa4-469d34970ec2.jpg?v=1786015703"},{"product_id":"9780863566127","title":"The Fall of the Imam","description":"Bint Allah knows herself only as the Daughter of God. Born in a stifling male-dominated state, ruled by the Imam and his coterie of ministers, she dreams of one day reaching the top of a distant hill visible through the bars of the orphanage window. But Bint Allah's ambitions do not escape the attention of the Imam, who never feels secure no matter how well he protects himself. When the Imam falsely accuses Bint Allah of adultery and sentences her to death by stoning, he is not prepared for what happens next. A postmodern fantasia, this powerful and poetic novel is a call to arms against those who use religion as a weapon against women.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295321370997,"sku":"9780863566127","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780863566127_ba560293-aff5-4351-b950-67427530fe81.jpg?v=1786444527"},{"product_id":"9780863566103","title":"Memoirs of a Woman Doctor","description":"A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body. After years of denying her own desires, the doctor begins a series of love affairs that allow her to explore her sexuality – on her own terms.Written in her twenties when Nawal El Saadawi was studying in Cairo, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor is the searing coming-of-age story of a woman striving for freedom in a male-dominated world. This classic feminist novel remains as thought-provoking today as when it was first published.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295471874421,"sku":"9780863566103","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780863566103_f5573aae-dcad-4133-96b1-b6dfc40810ce.jpg?v=1786015717"},{"product_id":"9780863566912","title":"Two Women in One","description":"Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. 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In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten  and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298968547701,"sku":"9780755651566","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780755651566_d4883259-2b5a-4a3d-ba60-31575c9ec35c.jpg?v=1786015706"},{"product_id":"9780755651641","title":"Walking through Fire","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWalking through Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, Nawal El Saadawi, author of \u003ci\u003eWoman at Point Zero\u003c\/i\u003e and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. 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