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Radwa Ashour

Egyptian novelist (–)

Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) (26 May &#;– 30 November ) was an Egyptian novelist.[1]

Life

Ashour was born in El-Manial[2] to Mustafa Ashour, a lawyer and literature enthusiast, and Mai Azzam, a poet and an artist.

She graduated from Cairo University with a BA degree in In , she received her MA in Comparative Literature from the same university. In , Ashour graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a PhD in African American Literature.[3] Her dissertation was entitled The search for a Black poetics: a study of Afro-American critical writings.[4] While preparing for her PhD, Ashour was remarked as the program’s first doctoral candidate in English who studied the literature of African-American literature .[5] She taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo.

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Between and , Ashour's mainly focused on studying, raising her son and playing an active role as an activist. She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti in She gave birth to her son, poet Tamim al-Barghouti, in In that same year, Ashour's husband, Mourid Barghouti was deported from Egypt to Hungary. As she and her son stayed in Cairo, they used to make frequent visits to Mourid.[6]

Ashour died on 30 November after long-term health problems.[7]

From to , she served as Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University, as well as teaching at the university and supervising research and dissertations related to her MA.

degrees.[8][9]

At the beginning of the third millennium, Ashour returned to the field of literary criticism, where she published a collection of works on the field of applied criticism, contributed to the Encyclopedia of the Arabic Writer (), and supervised the translation of the ninth part of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism ().[10]

Between and she published four novels and one collection of short stories, the most important of which are the novel Tanturia () and Lady Young's collection of anecdotal reports.[11][12]

In she was awarded the Constantine Kwavis International Literary Prize in Greece, and in she published an English translation of Mourid Barghouti's poetry anthology entitled Midnight and Other Poems.[13][14]

Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour's husband, wrote many letters and poems expressing his sincere feelings for her and she, in turn, also exchanged love letters with him.[15]

Her academic and social work

Active member of the following organizations:[16]

  • Committee for the Protection of National Culture.
  • National Committee for Resistance to Zionism in Egyptian Universities.
  • On March 9, a group for university independence.

In addition to her membership on a group of cultural and academic related arbitration committees:

  • State Incentive Awards Committee
  • Standing Committee of the High Council of Culture
  • History Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture

Tribute

On 26 May , Google Doodle commemorated Radwa Ashour's 72nd birthday.[17]

Works

  • The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Student in America, [18]
  • Warm Stone, [19]
  • Khadija and Sawsan,
  • I Saw the Date Palms, short stories,
  • Siraj.

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  • Granada: a novel. Translated by William Granara.

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  • Apparitions. Specters, Translated Barbara Romaine, Interlink Books, , ISBN&#;[21]
  • Al-Tantouria, [22]
  • Blue Lorries. Translated by Barbara Romaine.

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  • Athqal Min Radwa, ISBN
  • li Kull Al Mqhoorin Ajnih'a,
  • Faraj.[23]

As editor

  • Encyclopaedia of Arab Women Writers, –. American University in Cairo Press.

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Awards

Translations of Ashour's Work

  • Granada Trilogy was translated into Spanish and English[24]
  • Siraj was translated into English.
  • Atyaaf was translated into Italian.
  • She has a number of short stories that were published in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
  • Al-Tantouria has been published in English

Translated in Tamil by Dr.

P. M. M. Irfan, August

References

External links

  • Githa Hariharan in Conversation with Radwa Ashour and Ahdaf Souief, Newsclick, 6 April
  • "Radwa Ashour: As one long prepared", Al Ahram, Youssef Rakha, 27 January – 2 February
  • Guy Mannes-Abbott (10 January ).

    "Spectres, By Radwa Ashour". The Independent.

  • Writing, Teaching, Living: Egyptian Novelist Radwa Ashour, Arab Literature, 19 March