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Radwa Ashour was born in 1946 in the Manial district of Cairo. Her father was a lawyer and a keen devotee of literature. Her mother was a poet and artist. She studied English at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University , and after obtaining a master’s degree in comparative literature from Cairo university, she moved to the United States , where she obtained a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts , with a thesis on African-American literature. In 1977 she published her first critical work, on Ghassan Kanafani. She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, whose poems she translated into English. However he was expelled from Egypt by Anwar Sadat in 1979. She published further critical works before moving on to novels and short stories.

Between 1990 and 1993, she worked as Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, as well as teaching and supervising research and theses related to doctoral and master’s degrees . She returned to the field of literary criticism, where she published a collection of works dealing with the field of applied criticism, and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Arab Women Writers and supervised the translation of the ninth part of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism. She has received much acclaim for her novels, several of which have been translated into English. She died in 2014.

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