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Radwa Ashour


Born
in Cairo, Egypt
May 26, 1946

Died
November 30, 2014

Website

Genre
Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Literature & Fiction

Influences
Mourid Barghouti, تميم البرغوثي ...more


Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) was an Egyptian writer and scholar.
Ashour had published 7 novels, an autobiographical work, 2 collections of short stories and 5 criticism books. Part I of her Granada Trilogy won the Cairo International Book Fair “1994 Book of the Year Award.” The Trilogy won the First Prize of the First Arab Woman Book Fair (Cairo, Nov. 1995). The Granada Trilogy was translated into Spanish; part I of the Trilogy was translated into English. Siraaj, An Arab Tale was published in English translation, and Atyaaf was published in Italian. Her short stories have been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
Ashour has co-edited a major 4-volume work on Arab women writers (2004); The English translation: ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 107,591 ratings · 19,369 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
ثلاثية غرناطة
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4.29 avg rating — 49,256 ratings — published 1994 — 26 editions
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الطنطورية
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4.36 avg rating — 27,590 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions
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أثقل من رضوى: مقاطع من سيرة...
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3.93 avg rating — 5,865 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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فرج
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3.83 avg rating — 5,764 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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سراج
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3.59 avg rating — 2,994 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions
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أطياف
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3.63 avg rating — 2,807 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions
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خديجة وسوسن
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3.69 avg rating — 2,481 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
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الصرخة
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4.12 avg rating — 1,717 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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تقارير السيدة راء
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3.10 avg rating — 2,166 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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قطعة من أوروبا
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3.45 avg rating — 1,887 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Series by Radwa Ashour

Granada Cinta Granada مريمة والرحيل ثلاثية غرناطة
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أثقل من رضوى: مقاطع من سيرة... الصرخة
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“قام عليّ، أدار ظهره للبحر، وأسرع الخطو ثم هرول ثم ركض مبتعدا عن الشاطىء والصخب والزحام. التفت وراءه فأيقن أن أحدا لم يتبعه، فعاد يمشي بثبات وهدوء، يتوغل فى الأرض، يتمتم: لا وحشة في قبر مريمة!”
― Radwa Ashour, ثلاثية غرناطة
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“فـ إن الـقرأن شـفاء للـصـدور الـمحزونـة”
― Radwa Ashour
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“Palestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and disjointed associations-massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements, terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered kouffiyehs and suicide bombers, a seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction.”
― Radwa Ashour
tags: occupation, palestine, war
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