Noha Mohamed Radwan is an assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. She was an Egyptian literary scholar and assistant professor of Arabic Literature at

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and has also taught at

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. 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.

Early life and education

Radwan was born in

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. She received her MA from the Department of Arabic Studies at the

American University of Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

and her PhD from the

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In the news

In February 2011 she joined demonstrators in

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protesting the regime of Egyptian President

Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in t ...

. 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; there was a rally in

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protesting the attack on her. The next month she published a report of her studies called ''Egypt's Revolution, in Verse'' in the Journal of Higher Education. 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." 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.Revolutionary musahharati
, 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)

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External links

Faculty page at UC Davis
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