Recently published by Dar al-Shorouk book "for all oppressed wings .. Professor speaks", and includes a series of articles, some of which are published for the first time writer Radwa Ashour in literature and personal experience, criticism, politics and education.
The Palestinian poet and writer Mourid Barghouti, husband of the late writer and novelist wrote on his page on the social networking site Twitter that he was busy with his son, the poet Tamim Barghouti to compile articles Radwa in literature, criticism, politics and education.
Barghouti added that they sent the book to Dar al-Shorouk in Cairo on the anniversary of her birth, and wrote, "We are oppressed, Radwa, homelands residing in cemeteries, prisons and exiles, and how much we need wings. You are with me but I tell you: Come."
Ashour wrote a number of articles about her novel experience with historical novel and contemporary literary criticism. She also analyzed the stressful conditions on Egyptian universities, confronting unfair political, academic and social practices.
In the published articles, what is similar to the personal disclosure about the motives of writing, and its relationship to the Arabic heritage and beauty, as well as touched on efforts to resist normalization in Egyptian culture and universities.
Ashour was an active member of the National Committee for the Resistance of Zionism in Egyptian universities, and she was active in the "9 March" group for the independence of Egyptian universities, which aims to defend university norms and keep the Ministry of Interior guarded from universities to ensure their independence.
In the book, Murid Barghouti said about his life companion that "her smile opinion, and the position of her view, and the stubbornness of her heart opinion, and isolation from the market culture opinion .. Radwa beauty of her opinion, and her beauty beauty."
Naji Al Ali in Radwa papers
On the occasion of the assassination of Naji al-Ali, Mourid Barghouti published a chapter of the book containing an interview conducted by Radwa Ashour with al-Ali at the couple's house in the Hungarian capital Budapest in 1984, a few years before Ali's departure.
In the context of the Lebanese civil war, Naji al-Ali presented his personality, life experience, attitudes and drawings as a bright example of the intimate and authentic historical relationship between the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, "Barghouti said. Suspicious forces vandalized. "
In his interview with Radwa, Al-Ali recounted his life story since his birth in the village of al-Shajara between Tiberias and Nazareth in the Galilee district, his 1948 resort to Ain al-Hilweh camp (southern Lebanon), his participation in national events, his early political positions and their development, and how he expressed them through graffiti.
Al-Ali also talked about his meeting with Ghassan Kanafani, going to Kuwait and his work in the press and cartoons, and talked about the character of "Handhala", and his return to Lebanon before the invasion of Israel, and said in the dialogue that the intellectual's duty is to remain attached to them people, and express this concern. Adding in his dialogue with Radwa, "Democracy needs martyrs as well, and I appreciate that there are hundreds of unjust sultans, and that the word of duty is necessary and necessary and one must be authorized in the people."
Bus biography
Ashour's literary works include novels and books of warm stone, the trilogy of Granada, Khadija and Sawsan, a piece of Europe, Mary and the departure, and spectra.
Her criticism is "The Road to the Other Tent: A Study of the Works of Ghassan Kanafani", "The Follower Rises .. The Novel in West Africa", and "The Search for a Theory of Literature: A Study of Afro-American Criticism".
She also wrote autobiographical works, such as "The Journey: The Days of an Egyptian Student in America", "The Reports of Mrs. T", and "Heavier Than Radwa".
Born on 26 May 1946 in Cairo, Radwa Ashour studied English literature and received her master's degree in Comparative Literature from Cairo University in 1972.
She later received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in the United States in 1975. She taught at the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University and was a visiting professor at Arab and European universities.
After months of conflict with the disease, Radwa Ashour died on November 30, 2014 in Cairo at the age of 68.