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    Ahdaf Soueif (Arabic: أهداف سويف; born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator. Soueif was born in Cairo, where she...
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    El-Fattah, Sanaa Seif, and Mona Seif. Her sister is the novelist Ahdaf Soueif. Soueif was born in 1956, the daughter of university professors. She went...
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  • Soueif is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950), Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator Joseph...
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  • in 2003 by New York Review Books. with a new lengthy introduction by Ahdaf Soueif. The book is a memoir of Genet's encounters with Palestinian fighters...
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    married to social activist and professor Laila Soueif, who is also the sister of novelist Ahdaf Soueif. Ahmed Seif El-Islam was born in Hosh Eissa, Beheira...
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  • American University in Cairo Press, and later on 16 May 2005 by Bloomsbury. Ahdaf Soueif translated the book to English In 1966 Mourid Barghouti went to Cairo...
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    Mubarak Law Center. His mother Laila Soueif, the sister of the novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif, is a professor of mathematics at Cairo...
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    not having received sufficient advanced notice from Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif, who resigned from the board of trustees, citing its connection with...
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    from the original on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2011. "Ahdaf Soueif: Protesters reclaim the spirit of Egypt". BBC News. 13 February 2011...
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    Barry, Rachel Kushner, Geoff Dyer, Pankaj Mishra, Carmen Callil, and Ahdaf Soueif, said they supported Rooney’s decision. Conversations with Friends. London:...
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  • Abdel Wahab el-Miseiri Abo El Seoud El Ebiary Adel Darwish Adel Iskandar Ahdaf Soueif Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed Ahmed Mourad Alaa Al Aswany Albert Cossery Alfred...
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  • in the Snooker Club is "a classic of the literature of emigration." Ahdaf Soueif wrote that "Beer in the Snooker Club is one of the best novels about...
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    elsewhere. The inaugural winner of the prize, in 2010, was Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif. In 1988, one of his poems, "Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words",...
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  • festival's founding chair is the novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif. Mahmoud Darwish sent a message to the inaugural festival in which he...
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    Abdel Rahman El Abnudi Leila Ahmed Gamal Al-Ghitani Ahmad Al-Khamisi Ahdaf Soueif Laila Soliman Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Egypt portal  Category: Egyptian writers...
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    (2007) War with No End (with Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy, Ahdaf Soueif, Joe Sacco and Haifa Zangana) (2007) From I to J (with Isabel Coixet)...
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    George Packard, Russell Brand, Allan Nairn, Chris Hedges, Wallace Shawn, Ahdaf Soueif... YouTube. Archived from the original on September 18, 2013. Retrieved...
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    wrote in Sa'idi Arabic (Upper Egyptian). Some Egyptian writers, like Ahdaf Soueif, have also written extensively in English. Taha Husayn Yūsuf Idrīs Sonallah...
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    Abdel Rahman El Abnudi Leila Ahmed Gamal Al-Ghitani Ahmad Al-Khamisi Ahdaf Soueif Laila Soliman Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Egypt portal  Category: Egyptian writers...
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    Abdel Rahman El Abnudi Leila Ahmed Gamal Al-Ghitani Ahmad Al-Khamisi Ahdaf Soueif Laila Soliman Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Egypt portal  Category: Egyptian writers...
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    Caine Prize for his short story "Discovering Home" (the judges being Ahdaf Soueif, Margaret Busby, Jason Cowley and Abdulrazak Gurnah). Wainaina was the...
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  • Frayn Headlong Faber & Faber Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers Faber & Faber Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love Bloomsbury Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship Picador...
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    and bassist of Pink Floyd Vijay Prashad, Indian author and activist Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian author and activist Ana Tijoux, Chilean musician Alejandro...
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    protesters believe implicates the museum in global warming. In July 2019, Ahdaf Soueif resigned from the British Museum's board of trustees in protest against...
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    Saumarez Smith, Benson Medallist 1996 Zadie Smith 2002 *Nicola Solomon 2019 Ahdaf Soueif 2002 Diana Souhami 2024 *Wole Soyinka 1983 Frances Spalding 1984 *Nicholas...
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    David's Palace? Biblical Archaeology Review The Dig Dividing Jerusalem: Ahdaf Soueif writes on Silwan in the Guardian Amit Rosenblum. City of David: Conservation...
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  • Mansour Joseph Massad Salama Moussa Ihsan Abdel Quddous Edward Said Ahdaf Soueif Drost, 1991: 139–140. "Publication overview" (PDF). Ipsos. Archived from...
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    June 2024. أهداف سويف وإياد البرغوثي يشاركان في احتفالية فلسطين للأدب ['Ahdaf Soueif and Iyad Barghouti Participate in the Palestine Festival of Literature]...
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    Retrieved 2021-11-03. "Ahdaf Soueif - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2021-11-03. Bidoun. "Laila Soueif". Bidoun. Retrieved 2021-11-03...
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  • Biologist United States 2019 Patti Smith Musician United States 2021 Ahdaf Soueif Novelist and commentator Egypt 2014 Dean Spade Lawyer and activist United...
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