Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Marilyn Booth

Marilyn Booth translated Nawal al-Sa‘dawi’s memoirs into English as Memoires from the Women's Prison (London: The Women's Press, 1986). She lives in Cairo.

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Prison, Gender, Praxis

Do you, too, believe that I betrayed my motherhood when I left you, against my will, to go to prison?…. I have read an article by the Moroccan writer Hadiya Sa‘id…she expressed a point of view maintained by some of our friends who love me and are concerned about you. She says that I must cease my po

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