Radwa Ashour (1946–2014) is a highly acclaimed Egyptian
writer and scholar. She is the author of more than fifteen works of
fiction, memoir, and criticism and she supervised and edited the
Arabic translation of Volume 9 of The Cambridge History of Literary
Criticism (2006). She was professor of English and comparative
literature at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She received the
Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature and the prestigious Owais
Prize for Fiction.
Ferial J. Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and
translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature
at the American University in Cairo and formerly editor of Alif:
Journal of Comparative Poetics. She has written extensively on
gender issues in modern and medieval literature and is the author
of Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context
(AUC Press, 1996).
Hasna Reda-Mekdashi is a Lebanese publisher, former director
of the prominent child literature publishing house Dar al-Fata
al-Arabi, and founding member and managing director of Nour:
Foundation for Arab Women’s Research and Studies, Cairo. She
initiated and co-edited the Nour Quarterly Journal for reviews of
Arab women’s books, and initiated and co-directed the First Arab
Women’s Book Fair in Cairo in 1995.
"An immense, indispensable resource."--Choice"As a women's studies librarian, I treasure this guide as a reference tool."--Feminist Collections
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