On the 45th Wedding Anniversary Mourid Barghouti & Radwa Ashour

BY MLYNXQUALEY on JULY 22, 2015  In Mourid Barghouti’s seminal memoir, I Saw Ramallah, he writes about the loss of his private days — namely his birthday and his anniversary — as author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated on the date of the first, and cartoonist Naji al-Ali on the second: From I Saw Ramallah: I got to know Naji in 1970 in Kuwait. He was the

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In memoriam: Radwa Ashour, Egyptian novelist

Publishing house Shorouk marks birth an­niversary of Egyptian novelist and critic Radwa Ashour by reissuing five of her books. 2015/06/12 Issue: 9 Page: 21 The Arab Weekly Mona Anis The publishing house Shorouk marked the an­niversary of the birth of Egyptian novelist and critic Radwa Ashour by reissuing five of her books. Ash­our’s death last December created waves of sadness

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Radwa Ashour obituary

Courageous Egyptian writer, academic and translator known for her Granada trilogy Marina Warner Monday 8 December 2014 Radwa Ashour was a powerful voice among Egyptian writers of the postwar generation and a writer of exceptional integrity and courage. Her work consistently engages with her country’s history and reflects passionately upon it. “I am an Arab woman and a citizen of

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The Poet Cannot Stand Aside: Arabic Literature and Exile

M. Lynx Qualey Fourteen hundred years ago and more, the poet-prince Imru’ al-Qais was banished by his father. The king exiled his son, or so the legend goes, in part because of the prince’s poetry. Thus it was that, when the king was killed by a group of his subjects, al-Qais was traveling with friends. Al-Qais returned to avenge his

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