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prison is not inflicted by means of thebars,or the walls,or the stinging insects,orhunger or thirst or insults or beating.Prison isdoubt.And doubt is the most certain of tortures'  \nNawal el Sa'adawi is a leading Egyptian feminist,socialist,medical doctor,novelist and author of aclassic work on women in Islam,The Hidden Face ofEve.She had a distinguished career as Director ofHealth Education in the Ministry of Health in Cairo,until she was dismissed summarily from her post in1972,as a consequence of her political writing andactivities.Worse was to follow,for in 1981 she wasarrested,together with some thousands of others,foralleged 'crimes against the State'.She was released onlyafter the assassination of President Sadat.  \nThis book is her powerful account of those months injail,and of the other women she met there,some ofthem political radicals like herself,others veiled Islamicconservatives,all observed with the sympathy anddirectness of the novelist.  \nISBN 0-7043-4002-XUnited Kingdom:3.95070434002×  \n0000The Women's Press Ltd34 Great Sutton Street,London ECIV ODX  \nM\u003C.  \nNawal el Sa'adawi is a leading Egyptian feminist,sociologist,medical doctor,novelist and author of the classic work on women inIslam,The Hidden Face of Eve.She had a distinguished career inpublic health,both in Egypt and abroad,until,in 1973.she wasdismissed from her post as Director of Health Education in theMinistry of Health in Cairo;and eight years later imprisoned foralleged 'crimes against the State'.  \nShe lives in Cairo with her writer husband;she has a grown-updaughter(also a writer)and a son;and continues to write(she hashad 22 books published,several of them now translated intoEnglish,including the well loved novel Woman at Point Zero)andto campaign internationally for freedom and justice for women andmen.  \n# Memoirs from theWomen's Prison\n\nTranslated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth  \nFirst published in English byThe Women's Press Limited 1986A member of the Namara Group34 Great Sutton Street,London ECIV ODX  \nCopyright CNawal el Sa'adawi 1983Translation CMarilyn Booth 1986  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nel Sa'adawi,Nawal  \nMemoirs from the Women's Prison  \n1.el Sa'adawi,Nawal2.Political prisoners—Egypt—Biography  \nI.Title  \nHV9843  \n365'.45'0924  \nISBN 0-7043-4002-X  \nTypeset by MC Typeset.Chatham,Kent.Reproduced,printed and bound in Great Britain byHazell Watson &Viney Limited,Member of the BPCC Group,Aylesbury,Bucks  \nDedication  \nTo all who have hated oppression to the point of death,Who have loved freedom to the point of imprisonment,And have rejected falsehood to the point of revolution.  \nTo everyone who raised a voice in protest and angerWhen they broke down my door by force of armsAnd led me to prison on the sixth of September 1981.  \nTo all of those men and women,young people andchildren  \nWithin Egypt and outsideI dedicate this book.  \nNawal el Sa'adawiCairoMarch 1982  \nContents  \nPart I:  \nThe Arrest  \nPrison  \nPart II:  \nPart III:  \nPiercing the Blockade  \nPart IV:Out to the Investigation  \nPart V:  The Death of Sadat  \nPart VI:The Final Part  \n1  \n27  \n133  \n142  \n169  \n195","cbCaitMgRRlMTgPL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitMgRRlMTgPL","pdf",12089087,208,"English","# Contents\n## Part I: The Arrest\n## Prison\n## Part III: Piercing the Blockade\n## Part IV: Out to the Investigation\n## Part V: The Death of Sadat\n## Part VI: The Final Part","[{\"question\":\"Who is Nawal el Sa'adawi and what background does the book provide?\",\"answer\":\"Nawal el Sa'adawi is introduced as an Egyptian feminist, socialist, medical doctor, novelist, and author. 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