Marina Warner

A summons to history: Radwa Ashour’s Andalusia and its afterlife

May 8, 2025

Granada, by Radwa Ashour, is one of the top 100 novels of the 20th century according to the Arab Writers Union, is now available in a new, complete translation by award-winning translator Kay Heikkinen. The complete edition brings the Granada trilogy’s Books 2 and 3 into English for the first time. This epic work, which takes place in 16th-century Granada and spans more than a century, tackles issues such as cultural erasure and religious intolerance. Get your ticket here.

This version honours Ashour‘s memory on the 10-year anniversary of her death and includes a new foreword by Marina Warner. Marina will be in conversation with Karoline Cook (Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America) and Tamim al-Barghouti (Palestinian-Egyptian poet, columnist, political scientist, holds a PhD in political science from Boston University, and the son of the late Radwa Ashour).