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          Soueif has also remarked the influence of George Eliot on her writing, and she has been called by some journalists “Egypt's George Eliot.”....

          In The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif describes the liberation of the post-colonial subject as a palimpsest of competing claims, histories and.

        1. In The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif describes the liberation of the post-colonial subject as a palimpsest of competing claims, histories and.
        2. Ahdaf Soueif Speaking to Sharifa Alamri (Edited excerpts from an interview conducted in English and Arabic at Soueif's London home, 30th June, ).
        3. Soueif has also remarked the influence of George Eliot on her writing, and she has been called by some journalists “Egypt's George Eliot.”.
        4. Ahdaf Soueif is a contemporary Egyptian-British novelist and cultural theorist and In the Eye of the Sun, her first novel published in , tells.
        5. The writer Ahdaf Soueif talks to the BBC's George Alagiah from this year's Hay Festival.

          6. 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