Ahdaf Soueif
Who Is She
Personal information
Writer
Ahdaf Soueif
Contact information / Private
Cairo
Egypt
Languages
- Arabic
- English
Contact information / Work
Education
- PhD, Linguistics, Lancaster University , 1978
- MA, English Literature, The American University in Cairo, 1973
- BA, English Literature, Cairo University, 1971
Competences
- Fiction Writing
- Literary Criticism
- Literary Translation
- Non-fiction Writing
- Political & Cultural Commentator
Work history
Jobs:
- Founder & Chair, Engaged Events-UK, 2008- present
Honorary office and memberships:
- 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)
Productions and works:
- 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
Awards
- 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
