Memoirs of a Militant My Years in the Khiam Women's Prison

Shattering the notion that Muslim women did not play an active role in armed resistance national liberation struggles
"In order to carry on with life in prison, you must believe you will be there forever."
In the haunting and inspiring Memoirs of a Militant: My Years in the Khiam Women's Prison Nawal Baidoun offers us her first-person account of the life of a young woman activist imprisoned for four years, as well as the events leading up to her arrest and detention. Born into a nationalist family in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, not far from the location of the prison itself, Baidoun, like so many others, found herself compelled to take up arms to resist the Israeli occupation. Her memoir skillfully weaves together two stories: that of the oppressive conditions facing ordinary people and families in South Lebanon, and that of the horrors of daily life and the struggle for survival inside the prison itself.