literary critic university professor writer
She graduated from Cairo University with a Bachelor in 1967, and Master of Arts. in 1972, and from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Doctor of Philosophy in African American Literature in 1975.
Her dissertation was titled: The search for a Black poetics: a study of Afro-American critical writings. She taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She died on 30 November 2014.