radwa ashour
Decentralizing Tahrir Square
Books
July 3, 2012
Decentralizing Tahrir Square
In his 1970 Nobel lecture, Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn described art and literature as “the only substitute for what we…
Radwa Ashour on the train of images of the Egyptian revolution
Archaeology
February 19, 2012
Radwa Ashour on the train of images of the Egyptian revolution
“I will speak Arabic.” Those were Radwa Ashour’s first words for the keynote speech in the “Narrating the Arab Spring”…
In other words: Spotlight on Banipal Prize awardee Barbara Romaine
Books
January 31, 2012
In other words: Spotlight on Banipal Prize awardee Barbara Romaine
Next week, the winners of the annual Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation will be celebrated in London. When the…
Writing, teaching, living: Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour
Books
March 18, 2011
Writing, teaching, living: Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour
Celebrated author Radwa Ashour, whose Granada trilogy was voted one of the top 100 literary works by the Arab Writers…
Living with ghosts: The specters of Radwa Ashour
Books
November 10, 2010
Living with ghosts: The specters of Radwa Ashour
“Our society annihilates us in a thousand ways on a daily basis, so we learn gradually how to get our…
Radwa Ashour’s Tantoura: Palestinian nakba and resisting fait accompli
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September 26, 2010
Radwa Ashour’s Tantoura: Palestinian nakba and resisting fait accompli
Palestine has been ever-present in the works of Radwa Ashour, but despite this she has never written a novel directly…