Fawzia Assaad (born 1929) is an Egyptian novelist writing in

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Life

Fawzia Assaad was born in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

. Educated at French schools, she gained a doctorate in philosophy in

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. Her autombiographical novel ''L'Égyptienne'' (1975) portrays the effects of the 1952 Egyptian revolution and the

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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 Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator. Life and work Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven childre ...

. * ''Hatshepsout, Akhenaton, Néfertiti: pharaons hérétiques''. Paris : Geuthner, impr. 2007 * ''Préfigurations égyptiennes des dogmes chrétiens''. Paris: Geuthner, 2013.

References

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