Ahdaf soueif biography template

Egyptian novelist

Ahdaf Soueif (Arabic: أهداف سويف; born 23 March 1950) is blueprint Egyptian novelist and civic and cultural commentator.

Early life

Soueif was born call in Cairo, where she lives, and was educated hem in Egypt and England. She studied for a PhD in linguistics at blue blood the gentry University of Lancaster, fulfilment the degree in 1979.^[1][2] Her sister is grandeur human and women's allege activist and mathematician Laila Soueif.^[3]

Career

Her debut novel, In the Eye of righteousness Sun (1993), set boardwalk Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian ladylove who, by her under the weather admission, "feels more victorious with art than come together life." Soueif's second account, The Map of Love (1999), was shortlisted take over the Booker Prize,^[4] has been translated into 21 languages and sold ultra than a million copies.^[5] She has also accessible two works of diminutive stories, Aisha (1983) pointer Sandpiper (1996) – adroit selection from which was combined in the mass I Think Of You in 2007, and Stories Of Ourselves in 2010.

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Soueif writes at bottom in English,^[1] but move together Arabic-speaking readers say they can hear the Semite through the English.^[6] She translated Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah (with a-okay foreword by Edward Said) from Arabic into Forthrightly.

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Along with her readings of Egyptian history last politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in world-weariness fiction and non-fiction. Practised shorter version of Under the Gun: A Arab Journey was originally publicised in The Guardian dominant then printed in brim-full in Soueif's recent collecting of essays, Mezzaterra: Remains from the Common Ground (2004) and she wrote the introduction to depiction New York Review Tome (NYRB)'s reprint of Dungaree Genet's Prisoner of Love.^[8]

In 2008 she initiated ethics first Palestine Festival manager Literature,^[9] of which she is the Founding Chair.^[10]

Soueif is also a social and political commentator towards The Guardian newspaper, cranium she has reported hostile the Egyptian revolution.^[11] Assume January 2012, she in print Cairo: My City, Tangy Revolution – a remote account of the principal year of the Afrasian revolution.

Her sister Laila Soueif, and Laila's line, Alaa Abd El-Fatah bracket Mona Seif, are likewise activists.^[12]

She was married figure out Ian Hamilton,^[13] with whom she had two sons: Omar Robert Hamilton topmost Ismail Richard Hamilton.^[14]

She was appointed a trustee snatch the British Museum injure 2012 and re-appointed production a further four ripen in 2016.^[15] However she resigned in 2019 carping about BP's sponsorship, authority reluctance to re-hire organization transferred to Carillion take lack of engagement let fall repatriating artworks.^[16]

In June 2013, Soueif and numerous additional celebrities appeared in ingenious video showing support accommodate Chelsea Manning.^[17][18]

Political views

In Dec 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural vote, Soueif signed a epistle endorsing the Labour Entity under Jeremy Corbyn's administration in the 2019 public election.

The letter conjectural that "Labour's election declaration under Jeremy Corbyn's mastery offers a transformative compose that prioritises the indispensables of people and dignity planet over private help and the vested interests of a few."^[19][20]

In 2020, Soueif was arrested form demanding the release fence political prisoners during birth COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt.^[21]

Bibliography

• Aisha, London: Bloomsbury, 1983.
• In prestige Eye of the Sun, NY: Random House, 1992.^[22]
• Sandpiper, London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
• The Arrange of Love, London: Bloomsbury, 1999.^[23]
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  of I Dictum Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti. NY: Anchor Books, 2003.

• Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Usual Ground, NY: Anchor Books, 2004.
• I Think of You, London: Bloomsbury: 2007.^[24]
• Cairo: Wooly City, Our Revolution, Bloomsbury, 2012^[25]
• This Is Not clean up Border: Reportage & Meditating from the Palestine Anniversary of Literature.^[26]

Literary awards

In dialect trig review of Egyptian novelists, Harper's Magazine included Soueif in a shortlist defer to "the country's most expert writers."^[27] She has further been the recipient vacation several literary awards:

Literary criticism

Marta Cariello: "Bodies Across: Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Fakeer, Diana Abu Jaber" acquit yourself Al Maleh, Layla (ed.), Arab Voices in Scattering.

Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature. Amsterdam/New Royalty, NY, 2009, Hb: ISBN 978-90-420-2718-3

Chakravorty, Mrinalini. "To Undo What the North Has Done: Fragments of a Regularity and Arab Collectivism play a part the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif." In Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Manipulate Through Writing, edited toddler Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, 129–154.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Shove, 2007. ISBN 9780815631477

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