Salwa El-Awa

Dr Salwa El-Awa is currently an academic of Arabic and Islamic Studies within the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University.
Dr El-Awa was previously an academic at University of Birmingham, during which time she was an author of articles in the Encyclopaedia of the Quran.
Salwa is an Arabic word meaning "solace".
Academic career.
El-Awa has published work on Relevance theory and Qur'anic text, Al-Jama'a Al-Islamiyya and counter-terrorism policing in the UK and Egypt. She aims in her work to discuss the problem of textual relations in the Quran from a linguistic point of view and the way in which the verses of one chapter relate to each other and to the wider context of the total message of the Quran. El-Awa provides a detailed analysis in terms of coherence theory on chapters 33 and 75 and shows that these two chapters cohere and have a main contextual relationship.