Noha Radwan

Noha Mohamed Radwan is a comparative literature professor at University of California, Davis, and was an Egyptian literary scholar and  Assistant Professor Arabic Literature Columbia University. Radwan was born in Cairo, Egypt. She teaches “Introduction to Islamic Civilization.” Radwan  received her MA from the Department of Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo and her PhD at the University of California at Berkeley.

She has also taught at U. C. Berkeley.

Political views
Radwan told a reporter, “I am an anti-Zionist.”

Radwan defines the “Arab nationalist project” as “liberating Palestine and achieving true independence and real progress.”

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)