Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian short story writer and novelist.

Soueif was born in Cairo in 1950 and educated in Egypt and England. She studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster. The Map of Love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Soueif chooses to write primarily in English, but she also writes in Arabic, particularly while writing dialog between Arab characters in her fiction. She then translates the dialog into English, and her Arabic-speaking readers say they can hear the Arabic through the English. Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; transliterated: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... Lancaster University is a campus university located about three miles south of Lancaster, England. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...

Bibliography

• Aisha London: Bloomsbury, 1983.
• In the Eye of the Sun London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
• Sandpiper London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
• The Map of Love London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
• Mezzaterra London: Bloomsbury, 2004.