Literature Presentation

Literature Presentation—with Ahdaf Soueif
May 2, 2012—7 PM
Title: Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
(a talk and book-signing)

Ahdaf Soueif is the best-selling author of numerous novels and non-fiction books, including The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1999 and a political and cultural commentator. Hew newest book, Cairo: My City, Our Revolution, was published in early 2012 and is her memoir of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. She lives with her children in London and Cairo. More information about her and her work can be found on her website: www.ahdafsoueif.com

PUBLICATIONS:

2012: Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (a personal account of the Egyptian Revolution) Bloomsbury: London
2011: Reflections on Islamic Art (Editor), Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing: Doha
2007: I Think of You, (stories from "Aisha" and "Sandpiper"), Bloomsbury: London
2004: Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground, (Essays), Bloomsbury: London
1999: The Map of Love, (a novel), Bloomsbury, London
1996: Zinat al-Hayh wa Qisas Ukhra, (short stories), Dar al-Hilal, Cairo
1996: Sandpiper, (short stories), Bloomsbury: London
1992: In the Eye of the Sun, (a novel), Bloomsbury: London
1983: Aisha, (short stories), Jonathan Cape: London (reissued by Bloomsbury in 2000)

JOURNALISM and MEDIA:

Ahdaf Soueif writes in both English and Arabic and has written various essays and reviews published in: Akhbar al-Adab, al-Arabi, Cosmopolitan, Granta, al-Hilal, al-Katibah, The London Magazine, The London Review of Books, New Society, Nisf al-Dunya, The Observer, Sabah al-Kheir, The Sunday Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post and others.. She has made many programmes for Arab, American and British TV and Radio Stations.

EDUCATION:

PhD Linguistics, University of Lancaster, 1978
MA English Literature, The American University in Cairo, 1973
BA English Literature, Cairo University, 1971.