![]() ![]() The story of Ahdaf Soueif’s success is a fascinating one, and looking at her work and career we learn not simply about her passionate areas of concern – Egypt, British literature, sexual politics and the representation of the Arab world by the West – but about how the Booker Prize can put an arresting voice in the spotlight. She is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, Pal Fest. She writes regularly for The Guardian and is a key political commentator on Egypt and Palestine. Her most recent work is Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (2012), a personal account of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.Īhdaf Soueif lives in London and Cairo. ![]() In 2004, her book of essays, Mezzaterra, was published. The Map of Love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. The Map of Love (1999), is the story of a love affair between an Englishwoman and an Egyptian nationalist set in Cairo in 1900, as secrets are uncovered by the woman's great-granddaughter, herself in love with an Egyptian musician living in New York. In the Eye of the Sun, about a young Egyptian woman's life in Egypt and England, where she goes to study as a postgraduate, set against key events in the history of modern Egypt, was published in 1992. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Aisha (1983) and Sandpiper (1996), and two novels. Novelist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England, where she studied for a Ph.D. ![]()
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