Soueif biography
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Soueif biography
Ahdaf Soueif
Egyptian novelist
Ahdaf Soueif (Arabic: أهداف سويف; born 23 March ) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.
Early life
Soueif was born in Cairo, where she lives, and was educated in Egypt and England.
She studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster, completing the degree in [1][2] Her sister is the human and women's rights activist and mathematician Laila Soueif.[3]
Career
Her debut novel, In the Eye of the Sun (), set in Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian woman who, by her own admission, "feels more comfortable with art than with life." Soueif's second novel, The Map of Love (), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize,[4] has been translated into 21 languages and sold more than a million copies.[5] She has also published two works of short stories, Aisha () and Sandpiper () – a selection from which was combined in the col