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Egyptian novelist (1946–2014)

Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) (26 May 1946 – 30 November 2014) 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.

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She graduated from Cairo University with a BA degree in 1967. In 1972, she received her MA in Comparative Literature from the same university. In 1975, 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.

Between 1969 and 1980, Ashour's mainly focused on studying, raising her son and p