1. 1981: Nawal El Saadawi by Monika Lehner

    refining the explicit
    illuminating the concealed
    relating the unspeakable

    a voice that never failed to inspire
    offense amongst the unforgiving
    yet always resolved to continue
    writing for the sake of sanity
    to save the body so as not to lose the mind

    and to rescue imagination
    from death by silence




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