Azza Radwan Sedky, Author
Azza Radwan Sedky attended Ain Shams University, graduating with a doctorate in English literature. She taught at Kuwait University until she immigrated with her husband, son, and daughter to Canada in the 80s where she taught communication and language at the university level for 25 years. Azza retired recently.
Her book, Cairo Rewind, the first two years of Egypt’s Revolution, began as a personal blog written on her usual winter trip to Cairo and is a compilation of 100 blog posts from 2011 to 2013. As a professor at Capilano University in Vancouver, Canada, good luck and careful planning allowed her to teach and chair the department during the summer and fall semesters in order to spend several winter months in Cairo each year.
And so she was in Cairo throughout the Tahrir Square protests. She wrote long emails to friends overseas and in Canada, and soon began a blog—Egypt, Om El Donia, “Egypt, Mother of the World.” The Tyee, a Vancouver on-line news outlet, picked the earlier emails and published them. Little did she know then that this would be the start of another career, that of a political writer/columnist.
Azza has been published in Canadian and Egyptian publications. Today, she focuses on writing for Al Ahram Weekly and the Arabic Al Ahram daily.