Ahdaf Soueif
- January 6, 2024
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Ahdaf Soueif Biography
| Name | Ahdaf Soueif |
| Birthday | Mar 23 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Cairo |
| Birth Country | Egypt |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Spouse | Ian Hamilton |
| Children(s) | Omar Robert Hamilton, Ismail Richard Hamilton |
Ahdaf Soueif is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on March 23, 1950 in Cairo, Egypt. Ahdaf Soueif (أهداف سويف) (born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.
Marta Cariello: “Bodies Across: Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Faqir, Diana Abu Jaber” in Al Maleh, Layla (ed.), Arab Voices in Diaspora. Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature. Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2009, Hb: ISBN 978-90-420-2718-3
Soueif is also a cultural and political commentator for the Guardian newspaper and she has been reporting on the Egyptian revolution. In January 2012 she published Cairo: My City, Our Revolution – a personal account of the first year of the Egyptian revolution. She initially supported the overthrow of democracy and its replacement with the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Her sister Laila Soueif, and Laila’s children, Alaa Abd El-Fatah and Mona Seif, are also activists.
In June 2013, Soueif and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning.
In 2008 she initiated the first Palestine Festival of Literature, of which she is the Founding Chair.
Ahdaf Soueif Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Author |
| House | Living in own house. |
Ahdaf Soueif is one of the richest Author from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ahdaf Soueif 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Her debut novel, In the Eye of the Sun (1993), set in Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian who, by her own admission, “feels more comfortable with art than with life.” Soueif’s second novel, The Map of Love (1999), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has been translated into 21 languages and sold more than a million copies. She has also published two works of short stories, Aisha (1983) and Sandpiper (1996) – a selection from which was combined in the collection I Think Of You in 2007, and Stories Of Ourselves in 2010.
Along with her readings of Egyptian history and politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in her fiction and non-fiction. A shorter version of “Under the Gun: A Palestinian Journey” was originally published in The Guardian and then printed in full in Soueif’s recent collection of essays, Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground (2004) and she wrote the introduction to the NYRB’s reprint of Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love.
She was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum in 2012 and re-appointed for a further 4 years in 2016. However she resigned in 2019 complaining about BP’s sponsorship, the reluctance to re-hire workers transferred to Carillion and lack of engagement with repatriating artworks
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