Fawzia Assaad
{{short description|Egyptian novelist}}
Fawzia Assaad ({{langx|arz|فوزيه اسعد}}; born 1929) is an Egyptian novelist writing in French.{{cite book|last=Ghazoul|first=Ferial J.|editor=Simon Gikandi|editor-link=Simon Gikandi|title=Encyclopedia of African Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKmCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|year=2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-58223-5|pages=47–8|chapter=Assaad, Fawzia}}
Life
Fawzia Assaad was born in Cairo. Educated at French schools, she gained a doctorate in philosophy in Paris. Her autombiographical novel L'Égyptienne (1975) portrays the effects of the 1952 Egyptian revolution and the Arab–Israeli conflict on an Egyptian Coptic woman.
Works
- L'Égyptienne: roman. Paris: Mercure de France, 1975. Translated into English as Layla, an Egyptian woman, Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 2004.
- Préfigurations égyptiennes de la pensée de Nietzsche : essai philosophique. Laussane: L'Age d'homme, 1986.
- Des enfants et des chats. Lausanne: P.-M. Favre, 1987.
- La grande maison de Louxor: roman. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992.
- Hatshepsout, femme pharaon: biographie mythique. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner. With a preface by Michel Butor.
- Hatshepsout, Akhenaton, Néfertiti: pharaons hérétiques. Paris : Geuthner, impr. 2007
- Préfigurations égyptiennes des dogmes chrétiens. Paris: Geuthner, 2013.