Radwa Ashour

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Died November 30, 2014, Cairo, Egypt Education University of Massachusetts Amherst, Cairo University Books Blue Lorries, The Woman from Tant, Siraaj: An Arab Tale, Specters, Gibran and Blake: A Comparat

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Radwa Ashour (26 May 1946 – 30 November 2014) was an Egyptian novelist.

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Life

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Ashour was born in El-Manial. She graduated from Cairo University with a BA in 1967, and MA. in 1972, and from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Ph.D. in African American Literature in 1975. Her dissertation was titled: The search for a Black poetics: a study of Afro-American critical writings. She taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti in 1970. She gave birth to her son, poet Tamim al-Barghouti, in 1977.

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She won the 2007 Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature. She died on 30 November 2014.

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

Siraj. Translated by Barbara Romaine. University of Texas Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-292-71752-7.

Granada: a novel. Translated William Granara. Syracuse University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8156-0765-6.

Apparitions. 1998. Specters, Translated Barbara Romaine, Interlink Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-56656-832-6

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Blue Lorries. Translated by Barbara Romaine. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing. 2014. ISBN 978-99921-94-48-5.

As editor

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Encyclopaedia of Arab Women Writers, 1873–1999. American University in Cairo Press. 2008. ISBN 978-977-416-146-9.

References

Radwa Ashour Wikipedia

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