Fawzia Alashmawi

Fawzia Abd Al-Minem Al-Ashmawi (Arabic: فوزية العشماوي) is an Egyptian academic, writer and translator. She works as a Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Civilisation in the University of Geneva. She had won the Golden Award in Sciences and Arts from Egypt.

Early life Al-Ashmawi was born in October in the 1940s in Alexandria. Ashmawi was born to an Egyptian Alexandrian father from El-Siyala neighbourhood in Ras El-Teen district, and a Syrian mother. She has two sisters and two brothers. She went to a convent school during primary school, and she went to Alexandria University where she studied in the Department of French Language in the College of Arts, from which she graduated in 1965. Abd Al-Aziz Abu Zaid was a colleague of hers, who proposed to her after she graduated, then they got married afterwards. Counsellor in the United Nations in Switzerland Secretary General of the Swiss-Egyptian Cultural Association The Seven Monks of Alexandria (Original title: Al-Saba` Banât fî Al-Iskandiriyya), Sharqiyyat, Cairo, 1998 Alexandrie 60, Madbouly, Cairo, 1997 Stranger in my Country (Original title: Ghareeb fi Watani), Madbouly, Cairo, 1995 Al-Hub (Love), (translation from the French novel of Marguerite Duras L’Amant), General Organisation of Culture, Cairo, 1995 Islam and Globalisation (Original title: Al-Islam wa Al-Áwlama), High Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, 1999 The Status of Women in Islam (Original title: Makanat Al-Mar’a fi Al-Islam), Conference on Uprooted Muslim Women in Islam, Sharjah, U.A.E., 1994

English

Learning about the Other, Guidebook for History Textbooks, Joint Project of UNESCO and Arab League, Cairo, 2009 The Image of The Other in History Textbooks: Jews and Christians in Islamic Books, Istanbul, 2006 The Arabic Language as an Official Language of The United Nations, Nitobe Symposium, Berlin, 1999 Human Rights in Islam, Panorama, Bern, 1999 Muslim Voices in Switzerland, TSER Project, Brussels, 1999 Comparative Study of Textbooks: The Image of the Other in Seven Mediterranean Countries, UNESCO Publications, Newsletter No 5, 1996

French

Mariage et Divorce dans l’Egypte Ancienne (translation from Arabic of Marriage and Divorce in Ancient Egypt), Geuthner, Paris, 2009 Mohammad, Prophète de Dieu (The Prophet Mohammed), (translation from Arabic), WICS Publications, Tripoli, 2005 L’Islam dans les manuels scolaires en Europe (Islam in History Textbooks), WICS Publications, Tripoli, 2003 La Condition des Musulmans en Suisse (Muslims Status in Switzerland), CERA, Geneva, 2001 Etude Comparative des manuels scolaires des pays méditerranéens (Comparative Study of History Textbooks in Mediterranean Countries), UNESCO, Paris, 1996 L’Authenticité dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Naguib Mahfouz (The Authenticity in Naguib Mahfouz’ Novels), Revue of Arts & Translation, No 1, Kaslik, Liban, 1995 La tragédie de Voltaire: Mahomet ou le Fanatisme ( Mahomet, The Fanaticism of Voltaire), in Campus, Geneva, 1994 Miramar (translation from the Arabic novel Miramar by Naguib Mahfuz), Denoël, Paris, 1990 La Femme et l’Egypte Moderne dans l’oeuvre de Naguib Mahfouz (Woman and Modern Egypt in Naguib Mahfuz Novels), Labor & Fides, Geneva, 1985

Awards

Golden Award in Sciences and Arts from Egypt (Wissam Al-Istihqaq min Al-Daraja Al-Ula fi Al –`Ulum wa Al-Funun)