Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif is a celebrated Egyptian novelist, political commentator, cultural producer, and activist. Her work, which engages with the legacies of British and American intervention in the Middle East, especially Egypt, has made her an important international figure for those concerned with human rights and literature, not least in relation to the Arab world, as well as an iconic figure for Anglo-Arab writers and journalists. Soueif is a Booker Prize nominee, and has received many awards, including the Cavafy Award, the Mahmoud Darwish Award, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship Award, and most recently, the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture. Her work has been translated into a large number of languages. She has contributed regularly to The Guardian, The Observer, Cosmopolitan, Granta, The London Review of Books, New Society, The Sunday Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post, and others. She also writes in Arabic, and has contributed to al-Shorouk, Akhbar al-Adab, al-Arabi, al-Hilal, al-Katibah, Nisf al-Dunya, and Sabah al-Kheir.