Ahdaf Soueif
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Ahdaf Soueif (Arabic: أهداف سويف) is an Egyptian short story writer, novelist and political and cultural commentator.
Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England. She studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster. Her novel The Map of Love (1999) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and subsequently translated into 16 languages. Soueif writes primarily in English, but her Arabic-speaking readers say they can hear the Arabic through the English. Along with in-depth and sensitive readings of Egyptian history and politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in her fiction and non-fiction. A shorter version of "Under the Gun: A Palestinian Journey" was originally published in The Guardian and then printed in full in Soueif's recent collection of essays, Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground (2004). Soueif has also translated Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah (with a foreword by Edward Said) from Arabic into English.
[edit] Bibliography
- Aisha London: Bloomsbury, 1983.
- In the Eye of the Sun NY: Random House, 1992.
- Sandpiper London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
- The Map of Love London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
- Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground NY: Anchor Books, 2004.
- trans. of I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti. NY: Anchor Books, 2003.
