Radwa Ashour

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

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.

She won the 2007 Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature.

She died on 30 November 2014.

• 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
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•   Specters, Translated Barbara Romaine, Interlink Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-56656-832-6
• 2010, الطنطوريه
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