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Radwa Ashour was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1946. She graduated from Cairo University with a BA in 1967, and MA in 1972, and from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a PhD in African American Literature in 1975. Her dissertation was titled: The search for a Black poetics: a study of Afro-American critical writings. She taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo and served as the head of the English language and literature department from 1990 to 1993. She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti in 1970. She gave birth to her son, poet Tamim al-Barghouti, in 1977.

She won the 2007 Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature. She died on 30 November 2014.