An afternoon knock on NES
's door heralded her arrest and imprisonment by the government of Egyptian President Sadat
for her controversial writings, especially concerning women.
El Saadawi, Nawal. Memoirs from the Women’s Prison. Translator Booth, Marilyn, Women’s Press, 1986.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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19 November 1977: Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, arrived...
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19 November 1977
Anwar Sadat
, President of Egypt, arrived in Israel on a peace mission.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
