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Abryhia- I've added the section header below as well as the link to the main page you will be working on. I would suggest you change the order of sentences 2 and (now) 3, stating that she believed she was imprisoned for the wrong reasons, Sadat claimed it was an open democracy, then nawal claimed she was imprisoned for taking him at his word. Then I would keep the last sentence as the last sentence. I would encourage you to add a bit more of her comments about her arrest and imprisonment as this contribution is a tiny bit short. Hope that helps! -Dr. M

Nawal el Saadawi

Imprisonment
Long viewed as controversial and dangerous by the Egyptian government, Saadawi helped publish a feminist magazine in 1981 called Confrontation. She was imprisoned in September by President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. '''Nawal Stated in an interview, "I was arrested because I believed Sadat. He said there is democracy and we have a multi-party system and you can criticize. So I started criticizing his policy and I landed in jail". Sadat claimed that the established government was a democracy for the people and that democracy was always was open for constructive criticism. According to Nawal, Sadat imprisoned her because of her criticism of his purported democracy. Even in prison she still found a way to fight against the oppression of women. While in prison Nawal formed the the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. This was the first legal and independent feminist group of Egypt. In prison she was denied pen and paper, However that did not stop her from continuing to write. She used a "stubby black eyebrow pencil" and "a small roll of old and tattered toilet paper" to record her thoughts.'''

She was released later that year, one month after the President's assassination. Of her experience she wrote: "Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies." In 1982, she founded the Arab Women Solidarity Association.

Saadawi was one of the women held at Qanatir Women's Prison. Her incarceration formed the basis for her memoir, Memoirs from the Women's Prison (مذكرات في سجن النساء, 1983). Her contact with a prisoner at Qanatir, nine years before she was imprisoned there, served as inspiration for an earlier work, a novel titled Woman at Point Zero (امرأة عند نقطة الصفر, 1975).