Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo on 23 March 1950. She was educated in Egypt and England and in 1979 defended a thesis in linguistics at Lancaster University. She writes in English and divides her life between London and Cairo; a columnist for the Guardian, she covered the Egyptian revolution of 2011. One of her novels was a finalist for the Booker Prize in 1999. In 2008 she founded the Palestine Festival of Literature and in 2010 received the Mahmoud Darwish Prize; she was arrested in 2020 for demanding the release of political prisoners.

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• Short storiesAishaAhdaf Soueif · 1983Literature