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In the Eye of the Sun

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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Set amidst the turmoil of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, this vivid and highly-acclaimed novel by an Egyptian journalist is an intimate look into the lives of Arab women today. Here, a woman who grows up among the Egyptian elite, marries a Westernized husband, and, while pursuing graduate study, becomes embroiled in a love affair with an uncouth Englishman.

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030778925X

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Cairo

Memoir of a City Transformed

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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Cairo

Memoir of a City Transformed

By: Ahdaf Soueif

From the best-selling author of The Map of Love, here is a bracing firsthand account of the Egyptian revolution—told with the narrative instincts of a novelist, the gritty insights of an activist, and the long perspective of a native Cairene. Since January 25, 2011, when thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, Ahdaf Soueif—author, journalist, and lifelong progressive—has been among the revolutionaries who have shaken Egypt to its core. In this deeply personal work, Soueif summons her storytelling talents to trace the trajectory of her nation’s ongoing transformation. She writes of the passion, confrontation, and sacrifice that she witnessed in the historic first eighteen days of uprising—the bravery of the youth who led the revolts and the jubilation in the streets at Mubarak’s departure. Later, the cityscape was ablaze with political graffiti and street screenings, and with the journalistic and organizational efforts of activists—including Soueif and her family. In the weeks and months after those crucial eighteen days, we watch as Egyptians fight to preserve and advance their revolution—even as the interim military government, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, throws up obstacles at each step. She shows us the council delaying abdication of power, undermining efforts toward democracy, claiming ownership of the revolution while ignoring its martyrs. We see elections held and an Islamist voted into power. At each scene, Soueif gives us her view from the ground—brave, intelligent, startlingly immediate. Against this stormy backdrop, she interweaves memories of her own Cairo—the balcony of her aunt’s flat, where, as a child, she would watch the open-air cinema; her first job, as an actor on a children’s sitcom; her mother’s family land outside the city, filled with fruit trees and palm groves, in sight of the pyramids. In so doing, she affirms the beauty and resilience of this ancient and remarkable city. The book ends with a postscript that considers Egypt’s more recent turns: the shifts in government, the ongoing confrontations between citizen and state, and a nation’s difficult but deeply inspiring path toward its great, human aims—bread, freedom, and social justice. In these pages, Soueif creates an illuminating snapshot of an event watched by the world—the outcome of which continues to be felt across the globe.

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0307908119

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The Map of Love

A Novel

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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The Map of Love

A Novel

By: Ahdaf Soueif

Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly one hundred years before. In 1900 the recently widows Anna Winterbourne left England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with political sentiment. She soon found herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi, an Egyptian nationalist. When Isabel, in an attempt to discover the truth behind her heritage, reenacts Anna’s excursion to Egypt, the story of her great-grandparents unravels before her, revealing startling parallels for her own life. Combining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics—both sexual and international—Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale.

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0307783553

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I Think of You

Stories

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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I Think of You

Stories

By: Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark of defiance, these stories explore areas of tension–where women and men are ensnared by cultural and social mores and prescribed notions of “love,” where the place you are is not the place you want to be. Soueif draws her characters with infinite tenderness and compassion as they inhabit a world of lost opportunities, unfulfilled love, and remembrance of times past.

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030748615X

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Cairo

My City, Our Revolution

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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Cairo

My City, Our Revolution

By: Ahdaf Soueif

Over the past few months I have delivered lectures, presentations and interviews on the Egyptian Revolution. I have had overflowing houses everywhere, been stopped by old ladies in the street and had my hand shaken by numerous taxi drivers and shopkeepers. And all because I’m Egyptian and the glitter of Tahrir is upon me. They wanted me to talk to them, to tell them stories about it, to tell them how, on the 28th of January when we took the Square and The People torched the headquarters of the hated ruling National Democratic Party, The (same) People formed a human chain to protect the Antiquities Museum and demanded an official handover to the military; to tell them how, on Wednesday, February 2nd, as The People defended themselves against the invading thug militias and fought pitched battles at the entrance to the Square in the shadow of the Antiquities Museum, The (same) People at the centre of the square debated political structures and laughed at stand-up comics and distributed sandwiches and water; to tell them of the chants and the poetry and the songs, of how we danced and waved at the F16s that our President flew over us. People everywhere want to make this Revolution their own, and we in Egypt want to share it. Ahdaf Soueif - novelist, commentator, activist - navigates her history of Cairo and her journey through the Revolution that’s redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian. Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25th, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for eighteen days. She reported for the world’s media and did - like everyone else - whatever she could.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0747549621

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I Think of You

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I Think of You

By: Ahdaf Soueif

A collection of the best short stories from Booker Prize shortlisted author Ahdaf Soueif In these selected stories from her collections Aisha and Sandpiper, Ahdaf Soueif writes about love and displacement in prose that is delicately nuanced and acutely observed. These are achingly lyrical stories, resonant and richly woven. But they always retain an edginess as they explore areas of tension - where women and men are ensnared by cultural and social mores and prescribed notions of 'love', where the place you are is not the place you want to be. She delivers her characters with infinite tenderness and compassion as they inhabit a world of lost opportunities, unfulfilled love and remembrance of times past. ___________________ 'Ahdaf Soueif is one of the most extraordinary chroniclers of sexual politics now writing' EDWARD SAID, author of Orientialism 'A convincing and skilful writer' SUNDAY TIMES 'Highly unusual and richly impressive' GUARDIAN

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1408835991

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Sandpiper

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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Sandpiper

By: Ahdaf Soueif

From the author of AISHA and IN THE EYE OF THE SUN, a paperback edition of a collection of stories which provide insight into Egyptian and Western life and the links between them, looking at relationships within and across continents, feuds and key events in the lives of certain characters.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0747530815

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Mezzaterra

Fragments from the Common Ground

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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Mezzaterra

Fragments from the Common Ground

By: Ahdaf Soueif

Globalisation is happening. It is driven by economics, ideology and communications. But does this have to entail the annexation of chunks of the world by the Great Power of any given moment? Surely that is the path to constant conflict, to grief and misery. There is another way: to inhabit and broaden the common ground. This is the ground where everybody is welcome, the ground we need to defend and to expand. It is in Mezzaterra that every responsible person on this planet now needs to pitch their tent. This is the ground from which this book is calling." Ahdaf Soueif is one of the finest commentators of our time. Her clear-eyed reporting is syndicated throughout the world, and these essays, written between 1981 and the present, are collected here for the first time. They are the direct result of Soueif's own circumstances of being, as she puts it, "like hundreds of thousands of others: people with an Arab or a Muslim background doing daily double-takes when faced with their reflection in a western mirror". From visiting Palestine and entering the Noble Sanctuary for the first time, to interpretations of women who choose to wear the veil, and to post-September 11th commentary, these selected essays are always perceptive, fearless, intelligent and necessary.

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1408838273

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In the Eye of the Sun

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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In the Eye of the Sun

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This is a love story about growing up, a story about what it's like to be a woman (East and West), a story about the history of the last thirty or so perplexed and bloody years, a story about home.

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0747545898

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The Map of Love

A Novel

By: Ahdaf Soueif

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A Novel

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Cairo

Memoir of a City Transformed

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Memoir of a City Transformed

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Mezzaterra

Fragments from the Common Ground

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Lady Pacha

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By: Ahdaf Soueif

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roman

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Superbe fresque mêlant Orient et Occident, récit bouleversant de deux passions amoureuses à cent ans de distance, chronique tumultueuse d'un siècle d'histoire, Lady Pacha est le grand roman de l'Egypte, de son peuple, de ses luttes et de ses espoirs. Du mariage scellé envers et contre tous de lady Anna Winterbourne avec Charif Pacha al-Baroudi, aristocrate luttant pour l'indépendance - au Caire, en 1900 - à la folle rencontre - à New York, en 1997 - de leur descendante, Isabel Parkman, avec le célèbre chef d'orchestre Omar al-Ghamraoui, c'est grâce à une malle ballottée entre ces deux mondes, gardienne de lettres et de carnets jaunis, que la jeune Amal, renouant les fils du temps, ressuscitera le secret immémorial des rives du Nil ou, hier comme aujourd'hui, " ce qui survit de nous est l'amour ".

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2709620863

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In the Eye of the Sun

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