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Writer
Ahdaf Soueif
Cairo
Egypt
soueifoffice@gmail.com
- PhD, Linguistics, Lancaster University , 1978.
- MA, English Literature, The American University in Cairo, 1973.
- BA, English Literature, Cairo University, 1971.
Arabic
English
- Fiction Writing.
- Literary Criticism.
- Literary Translation.
- Non-fiction Writing.
- Political & Cultural Commentator.
- Founder & Chair, Engaged Events-UK, 2008- present.
- Patron, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK.
- Fellow, the Royal Society of Literature, UK.
- Patron, The Caine Prize for African Writing.
- Trustee, The British Museum.
- Trustee, The International Prize for Arab Fiction (IPAF).
- Cairo: a City Transformed, (memoir), Pantheon, January 2014.
- Cairo: my City, our Revolution, (memoir) Bloomsbury 2012.
- Editor: Reflections on Islamic Art, (essays), BQFP 2011.
- I Think of You: Stories, Bloomsbury: London, 2007.
- Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground, Bloomsbury: London, 2004.
- The Map of Love, 1999.
- In the Eye of the Sun, 1993.
- Honorary DLitt, Exeter University, 2008.
- Honorary DLitt, London Metropolitan University, 2004.
- Honorary DLitt, Lancaster University, 2004.
- Mahmoud Darwish Award, 2010.
- Costantine Cavafy Award, 2012.
- Metropolis Bleu Award.