XXXIV. Life Is Hard, but You Must Be Harder

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XXXIV. Life Is Hard, but You Must Be Harder

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XXXIV. Life Is Hard, but You Must Be Harder

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

Tatiana and Niko

Nov 30, 2023

Transcript

This week, Niko and Tatiana read Woman at Point Zero by Egyptian feminist author and doctor Nawal El Saadawi, the "Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab world". Based on a true story, Woman at Point Zero recounts the life of Firdaus, a young prostitute on death row, allowing her to reclaim the meaning of her life and depict the lot of Egyptian women. Niko and Tatiana discuss consciousness, sex work, and the gaze of eyes.

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Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.

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