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group while attending the last grade at the University. She was arrested and detained in Hadra prison in 1949 during the student demonstrations against the British occupation of the country. In the same incident her first husband was also arrested and imprisoned. Following her release from prison she
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and the chair of the department of English at the same university. She also served as the director of the Egyptian Arts Academy. She was again imprisoned in 1981 while she was heading the Committee for the Defense of National Culture which had been established in opposition to the
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Hannah Davis Taieb (1998). "The Girl Who Found Refuge in the People: the Autobiography of Latifa Zayyat".
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earned her PhD at Cairo University in 1957. During the same period she worked for the leftist magazine
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to the writer for the 92nd anniversary of her birth. The Doodle reached all the countries of the
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Al Zayyat died of cancer at age 73 in Cairo on 10 September 1996.
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Two of Al Zayyat's novels are translated to English,
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