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العربية
Radwa Ashour
Personal information
Writer and Professor
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Contact information (work)
Education
PhD, African-American Literature, University of Massachusetts, 1975
MA, Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1972
BA, English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1967
Competences
African-American Literature
Comparative Literature
Literary Criticism
Modern Arabic Literature
Arabic
English
French
Jobs
Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 1986-Present
Rapporteur, Standing Committee for the Promotion of Professors and Assistant Professors in English Language and Literature, 2000-2006
Chair, English Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 1990-1993
Founding Member, Committee for the Defense of National Culture, and editor of the book "The Challenge" published by the committee, 1979-1995
Served for several terms on the Committee for the State Encouragement Award, Committee for the Story, and the full-time committee of the Supreme Council for Culture
Member, March 9 Group for University Independence
Member, Standing Committee for the Promotion of Professors and Assistant Professors in English Language and Literature, 1993-2007
Board Member, Al-Jazeera Media Network, 2009-Present
Farag (A Novel), Dar al-Shuruq, Cairo, 2008.
The Possible Modernity: ??? in the First Novel in Modern Arabic Literature (Critical Study). Dar al-Shuruq, Cairo, 2009.
Al-Tanturiyya (A Novel), Dar al-Shuruq, Cairo, 2010.
Awards
Tarquinia Award for a Radical in Literary Criticism, 2009
Konstantine Kafavi International Award for Literature, 2007
Honored as a writer for Atyaf and The Granada Trilogy from among six honored authors from Egypt and six from the Arab World at the Cairo International Book Fair, January 2003
First Place, first exhibition for Women Arab writers, for the Granada Trilogy, November 1995
Best Novel, Cairo Book Fair, for the first part of the Granada Trilogy, 1994