Noha Radwan
Noha Mohamed Radwan is an Associate Professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Davis.{{cite web|title=Noha Radwan
|website=UC Davis Department of Comparative Literature|date=July 19, 2023|url=https://complit.ucdavis.edu/people/noha-radwan|access-date=30 March 2024}} She was an Egyptian literary scholar and assistant professor of Arabic Literature at Columbia University and has also taught at U. C. Berkeley.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_May_20/ai_8607096 Free UC Berkeley Extension Lecture Examines Nonviolence After 9/11], Business Wire, May 20, 2002. She teaches "Introduction to Islamic Civilization". Her interests include modern Middle Eastern literature in Arabic and Hebrew, and she has a particular interest in modern Arabic poetry.{{cite web|url=http://mesa.ucdavis.edu/faculty/me-sa-faculty/noha-radwan|title=Faculty page|work=University of California, Davis|accessdate=15 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206023105/http://mesa.ucdavis.edu/faculty/me-sa-faculty/noha-radwan|archive-date=2013-12-06|url-status=dead}}
Early life and education
Radwan was born in Cairo, Egypt. She received her MA from the Department of Arabic Studies at the American University of Cairo and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
In the news
In February 2011 she joined demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square protesting the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. For a week she recorded poetry, rhyming chants and music improvised by the demonstrators. She reported that she was attacked on the street and beaten by a mob of Mubarak supporters;{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/weekinreview/13zimmer.html?_r=0|title=How the War of Words Was Won in Cairo|date=February 12, 2011|work=New York Times|accessdate=15 July 2013}} there was a rally in Sacramento, California protesting the attack on her.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1353320DCE6CF288&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Rally set to show Egyptian support|date=February 4, 2011|work=Sacramento Bee|accessdate=15 July 2013}} The next month she published a report of her studies called Egypt's Revolution, in Verse in the Journal of Higher Education.{{cite news|url=http://chronicle.com/article/The-Verse-of-Tahrir-Square/126664/|title=Egypt's Revolution, in Verse|last=Radwan|first=Noha|work=Journal of Higher Education|date=March 13, 2011|accessdate=15 July 2013}}
During a controversy at Columbia in 2005, Radwan told a reporter, "If some faculty are going to be accused of anti-Zionism, let me be among them to say I am anti-Zionist."[http://www.nysun.com/article/11659 Faculty Denounce 'Right-Wing Attack'], Jacob Gershman, New York Sun, April 5, 2005.
While a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in 2003, she wrote about how modern Egyptian poets are using traditional poetry forms to convey nationalist ideas.[http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/664/cu5.htm Revolutionary musahharati] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520222846/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/664/cu5.htm |date=2008-05-20 }}, Noha Radwan, Al-Ahram, 13–19 November 2003, No. 664.
Publications
Redefining the Canon: Shi'r Al- 'Ammiyya and Modernism in Arabic Poetry (2004) University of California Press.
A Place for Fiction in the Historical Archive, (Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 17 Issue 1 2008, pp. 79–95)
Notes
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131206023105/http://mesa.ucdavis.edu/faculty/me-sa-faculty/noha-radwan Faculty page at UC Davis]
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