Ascent ... A Tribute to the Leading Feminist Voice of Egypt. "When I went to prison I was already 50 years old – quite mature – so I was strong enough to survive. It’s a battle, but you go on. You are conquered and then you conquer. You are not broken. In prison, you face real life. Prison is like death, like exile, you face something horrible that you were so afraid of all your life – I was so afraid of prison and of death and of exile and of loneliness, of everything, but when I was in it, I lost my fear. You have to face these things to lose your fear." — Nawal El Saadawi in an excerpt from a 2018 interview with Sarah Raphael in Refinery29. El Saadawi was briefly jailed in 1981 as part of a round-up of dissidents under President Anwar al-Sadat. Egyptian El Saadawi died last Saturday March 21, which marks Mother’s Day in Egypt. She was a feminist, activist and psychiatrist who spent her life fearlessly fighting for the liberation of women and against the practice of FGM, which she was subjected to as a six-year-old child. Her unrelenting determination, courage and unique intellectual & literary voice will be sorely missed. #InTribute #NawalalSaadawi #ExperimentsinCollage #ReframingtheNarrative #DissectingIntheShadowofthePyramids https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2aSdepQhV/?igshid=1vll3amuidsev