He offers Firdaus a place to stay and promises to help her find work. Whilst roaming the streets, Firdaus meets a man named Bayoumi, who owns a coffee shop. Finally, he beats her so badly that she bleeds she runs away again, this time to the streets. The Sheikh is furious and meaner than ever to Firdaus. Her uncle and aunt-in-law tell her that all husbands beat their wives, and they take her back to Sheikh Mahmoud’s house immediately. One day, he beats her so badly that she runs to her uncle’s house for protection. The Sheikh is miserly, gross, and abusive to Firdaus.
Shortly after this, she is married to Sheikh Mahmoud. Firdaus rejects this idea and runs away, but she gets frightened being in the streets alone and returns to her uncle’s house the same day. Her aunt-in-law convinces her uncle that Firdaus should marry Sheikh Mahmoud, a man 40 years older than she. She wants to find work using her secondary school certificate, but her uncle claims that’s impossible.
Her uncle and his wife have several children now, and there’s no room for her in their household for her. When Firdaus returns to her uncle’s home, much has changed. Firdaus graduates second in her class and receives her secondary school certificate. There, Firdaus makes new friends and grows attached to her teacher, Ms. Eventually, her uncle marries, and his new wife convinces him to send Firdaus to boarding school. She excels at school and receives great grades. In Cairo, Firdaus flourishes despite her uncle continually sexually assaulting her. Sickness is rampant in their town, and when both of Firdaus’s parents pass away, her uncle comes and takes her to live with him in Cairo. She did make sure to circumcise Firdaus when the young girl started asking questions about where babies come from.
Her mother mostly cared about Firdaus’s father and treated her children as afterthoughts.
Her father was a lying, greedy man who beat his wife and took food from the mouths of his children. Sentenced to death by hanging for killing her pimp, Firdaus shares her story with a psychiatrist a few hours before she is hung.įirdaus grew up poor in a rural village. Set in the Qanatir prison in 20th-century Egypt, Woman at Point Zero is the story of the prison’s most infamous prisoner, a young woman named Firdaus.
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