One woman's life. Three generations of defiance. A tale of Egypt then and now.
Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian writer and scholar born in 1946. She is the author of numerous novels, short story collections and academic works and contributed to the essay collection Reflections on Islamic Art. A long-time professor of English literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo, she holds a PhD in African-American literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in Cairo and is married to Palestinian writer Mourid Barghouti. Barbara Romaine has previously translated three novels, including two by Radwa Ashour as well as Bahaa Taher's Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery. She has also published shorter pieces by Ibrahim Aslan and Mohamed Mansi Qandil. In 2011 her translation of Ashour's novel Spectres was runner-up in the competition for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Every work by Radwa Ashour is a masterclass. Karma Sami, Al-Ahram One of the most painful yet enjoyable of all novels. Mahmoud El-Wardani, Akhbar al-Adab
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