A review by sonnet_reads
Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi was the Director of Health and Education in Cairo and a radical political writer before she was dismissed from her post in 1972 and arrested for "crimes against the state" in 1981. She wasn't released until after Anwar Sadat was assassinated. She describes her arrest and firsthand accounts of life in the women's prison, how she clung to writing as a way to get her through. I was a little uncomfortable with some of Nawal's positions, but isn't that why we read? To examine our discomfort and inform ourselves?