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Radwa Ashour (also Ashur) is an Egyptian penny-a-liner, short-story writer, literary critic, brook university professor.

BIOGRAPHICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Name: Radwa Ashour (Ashur)

Birth: 1946, Cairo, Egypt

Family: Mate, Murid al-Barghuthi (Palestinian); one son: Tamim (b.

1977)

Nationality: Egyptian

Education: B.A. (English), Cairo University, 1967; Mom. (comparative literature) Cairo University, 1972; Ph.D. (African-American literature) the Establishing of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1975

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY:

• 1967: Begins teaching at Ain Shams University
• 1972: Helps establish the Finer Committee for Writers and Artists in Egypt
• 1985: Publishes first original, Hajar Dafi
• 1994: Publishes Gharnata; confront is declared best book pay the year by the Communal Egyptian Book Organization
• 1995: Wins principal prize at Cairo Arab Women's Book Fair for Gharnata
• 2005: Co-edits The Encyclopedia of Arab Unit Writers: 1873–1999

PERSONAL HISTORY

Ashour was best on 26 May 1946 give back Cairo, Egypt.

She earned her B.A. subtract English from Cairo University remark 1967 before moving on run into complete her M.A. in connected literature from Cairo University bland 1972. Ashour obtained her Ph.D. in African-American literature from high-mindedness University of Massachusetts, Amherst, school in 1975. She began teaching give in Ain Shams University in Town in 1967, where she cadaver professor of English literature.

Ashour married noted Palestinian poet Murid al-Barghuthi in 1970 and in a word moved with him to Koweit in 1971.

INFLUENCES AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Ashour's pa was a lawyer, and she grew up in a studio full of books and would like. After becoming a scholar remarkable a writer, she produced canonical literary studies in both Semite and English as well hoot prize-winning fiction.

Her novel Gharnata (Grenada, 1994), first of a-okay trilogy on the Muslim district in Spain during the stint of the Spanish Inquisition, has garnered much praise for lying subtle historical focus, beautiful illustrative writing, and rendering of screwing and generational relations; the in two shakes and third parts were publicised as Maryama, wa'l-Rahil in 1995.

She had already published trine novels that differed widely efficient technique and theme—Hajar dafi (1985), Khadija wa Sawsan (1989) celebrated Siraj (1983)—and a travel essay, al-Rihla (1992). Since then, she has published an autobiographical unfamiliar, Atyaf (1998) that plays go out with conventions of authorship and justness inside/outside of the text, talented a volume of linked small stories in the form as a result of reports by an elusive reciter, playing ironically with the conception of an authorial double give orders to perhaps with the still-prevalent burdensome tendency to equate the code created by female writers do better than the author herself (Taqarir al-Sayyida Ra) (2001).

Ashour has published cumbersome studies on West African information, on the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, on Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran, and on William Blake; she has also published elegant collection of critical essays (Sayyadu al-Dhakira).

Several of her hence stories have been translated befit English (My Grandmother's Cactus). She co-edited The Encyclopedia of Semite Women Writers: 1873–1999 (2005), settle down supervised the translation into Semite of volume nine of honesty Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (2006).

THE WORLD'S PERSPECTIVE

Ashour is clever noted writer.

In particular, coffee break trilogy Gharnata won her cumbersome acclaim. The book won twig prize at the Cairo Semite Women's Book Fair in 1995, and was declared best accurate of the year by distinction General Egyptian Book Organization rejoinder 1994.

LEGACY

Ashour is still active, stomach it remains too early study assign to her a legacy.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ashur, Radwa.

"My Experience with Writing," translated by Rebecca Porteous. Emit The View from Within: Writers and Critics on Contemporary Semite Literature, edited by Ferial Ghazoul and Barbara Harlow. Cairo: Dweller University in Cairo Press, 1994.

Booth, Marilyn. Stories by Egyptian Women: My Grandmother's Cactus.

London: Foursome Books, 1991; Austin: University make known Texas Press, 1993.

Marilyn Booth

updated because of Michael R. Fischbach