Radwa Ashour
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from Cairo UniversityCairo University
Cairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...
with a BA in 1967, and MA. in 1972, and from University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a Ph.D. in 1975.
She teaches at Ain Shams University
Ain Shams University
Ain Shams University is an institute of higher education located in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1950, the university provides education at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.-History:...
.
She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti or Mureed Barghouti or Murid Barguti or Murid Barghuti is a Palestinian poet and writer....
in 1970.
She won the 2007 Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature.
Works
- The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Student in America, 1983
- Warm Stone, 1985
- Khadija and Sawsan, 1989
- I Saw the Date Palms, short stories, 1989; Specters, Translated Barbara Romaine, Interlink Books, 2010, ISBN 9781566568326
- 2010,الطنطوريه
External links
- Githa Hariharan in Conversation with Radwa Ashour and Ahdaf Souief, Newsclick, 6 April 2010
- "Radwa Ashour: As one long prepared", Al Ahram, Youssef Rakha, 27 January - 2 February 2000
- Writing, Teaching, Living: Egyptian Novelist Radwa Ashour, Arab Literature, March 19, 2011