With the death of ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Abnudi (1938-2015), Egypt and the Arab world lost the last of the pioneers of colloquial poetry who have significantly enriched poetry written in the spoken Egyptian dialect and expanded its horizons. Together with Fuad Haddad (1927-85) and S..
Noha Radwan
Noha Radwan is an Egyptian-born professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Davis. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley and taught at Columbia University from 2005-2010. Her research interests focus on modern Arabic poetry and fiction.