A review by indahmarwan
The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi

3.0

There is always a problem in reading a piece in its translated languages. Yet I did enjoyed reading this piece. It focuses on the corruption of the imam, the highest clerics and the highest authority. How religion is used as a camouflage of evil and how women are seen in traditional religious society with the negative influence of the imam to it, is really a critique for Islamic society. Nawal el-Shaadawy tries to bring the facts hidden in Islamic society and at the same time bring out the feminist voice in her thoughts, criticising her own religious society.