Fawzia Assaad (; 17 July 1929 – 2 October 2023) was an Egyptian novelist who wrote in French.
Life and career Fawzia Assaad was born in Cairo on 17 July 1929. 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. Assaad died on 2 October 2023, at the age of 94.
Works L'Égyptienne: roman. Paris: Mercure de France, 1975. Translated into English as Layla, an Egyptian woman, Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 2004. Préfigurations égyptiennes de la pensée de Nietzsche : essai philosophique. Laussane: L'Age d'homme, 1986. Des enfants et des chats. Lausanne: P.-M. Favre, 1987. La grande maison de Louxor: roman. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992. Hatshepsout, femme pharaon: biographie mythique. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner. With a preface by Michel Butor. Hatshepsout, Akhenaton, Néfertiti: pharaons hérétiques. Paris : Geuthner, impr. 2007 Préfigurations égyptiennes des dogmes chrétiens. Paris: Geuthner, 2013.
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