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Ahdaf Soueif was born on 23 March, 1950 in Cairo, Egypt, is an Egyptian novelist. Discover Ahdaf Soueif's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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Her husband is Ian Hamilton
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Ahdaf Soueif Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ahdaf Soueif worth at the age of 73 years old? Ahdaf Soueif’s income source is mostly from being a successful novelist. She is from Egypt. We have estimated Ahdaf Soueif's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Ahdaf Soueif (أهداف سويف; born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.
Soueif was born in Cairo, where she lives, and was educated in Egypt and England.
She studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster, completing the degree in 1979.
Her sister is the human and women's rights activist and mathematician Laila Soueif.
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.
Soueif writes primarily in English, but her Arabic-speaking readers say they can hear the Arabic through the English.
Along with her readings of Egyptian history and politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in her fiction and non-fiction.
Her debut novel, In the Eye of the Sun (1993), set in Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian woman 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 Booker Prize, has been translated into 21 languages and sold more than a million copies.
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.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.
In 2008 she initiated the first Palestine Festival of Literature, of which she is the Founding Chair.
Soueif is also a cultural and political commentator for The Guardian newspaper, and she has reported on the Egyptian revolution.
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2009, Hb: ISBN 978-90-420-2718-3
"To Undo What the North Has Done: Fragments of a Nation and Arab Collectivism in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif."
In Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing, edited by Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, 129–154.
In January 2012, she published Cairo: My City, Our Revolution – a personal account of the first year of the Egyptian revolution.
She was appointed a trustee of the British Museum in 2012 and re-appointed for a further four years in 2016.
In June 2013, Soueif and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning.
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.
In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Soueif signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.
The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few."
In 2020, Soueif was arrested for demanding the release of political prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt.
In a review of Egyptian novelists, Harper's Magazine included Soueif in a shortlist of "the country's most talented writers."
She has also been the recipient of several literary awards:
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''.