Ahdaf Soueif
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born
in Cairo , Egypt
March 23, 1950
gender
female
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The Map of Love
by Ahdaf Soueif , أهداف سويف — published 1999 — 19 editions |
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In the Eye of the Sun
— published 1993 — 8 editions |
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I Think of You: Stories
— published 1996 — 6 editions |
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زينة الحياة
by Ahdaf Soueif, أهداف سويف — 2 editions |
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Aisha
— 4 editions |
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في مواجهة المدافع : رحلة فلسطينية
by Ahdaf Soueif, أهداف سويف — published 1999 — 2 editions |
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Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
— published 2012 — 5 editions |
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Sandpiper
— published 1996 — 2 editions |
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Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground
— published 2004 — 4 editions |
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Reflections on Islamic Art
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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“She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .”
― Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun
― Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun
“Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day and asks if I think her new tablecloth is pretty. We are living in difficult times and it is not enough for a person to be interested in his home and his job - in his own personal life. I need my partner to be someone to whom I can turn, confident of her sympathy, believing her when she tells me I'm in the wrong, strengthened when she tells me I'm in the right. I want to love, and be loved back - but what I see is not love or companionship but a sort of transacton of convenience santioned by religion and society and I do not want it.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
“You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--”
― Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun
― Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun
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