Egyptian Author Radwa Ashour
- 1967: Started teaching at Ain Shams University
- 1972: Helped establish the Higher Committee for Writers and Artists in Egypt
- 1975: Received her PhD in African American Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1983: Published Siraaj, the story of a revolt by Yemenis against their island's despotic sultan
- 1985: Published Hajar Dafi (A Warm Stone)
- 1989: Published Khadija wa Sawsan
- 1994: Published Granada Trilogy
- 1995: Won first prize at Cairo Arab Women’s Book Fair for Granada
- 2005: Co-edited The Encyclopedia of Arab Women Writers, A Critical Reference Guide: 1873-1999
- 2006 She supervised, edited translation into Arabic of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 9