Fawzia Assaad

Fawzia Assaad (born 1929) is an Egyptian novelist writing in French.
Life.
Fawzia Assaad was born in Cairo. Educated at French schools, she gained a doctorate in philosophy in Paris. Her autombiographical novel "L'Égyptienne" (1975) portrays the effects of the 1952 Egyptian revolution and the Arab–Israeli conflict on an Egyptian Coptic woman.