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Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of the bestselling novel The Map of Love, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999, as well as Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground and the novel In the Eye of the Sun. She also has translated from the Arabic the award-winning memoir I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti. She lives in London.
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I Saw Ramallah
Written by Mourid Barghouti
Translated by Ahdaf Soueif
Introduction by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $12.95
Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As... Read more >
Written by Mourid Barghouti
Translated by Ahdaf Soueif
Introduction by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $12.95
Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As... Read more >
I Think of You
Stories
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Stories
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
I Think of You
Stories
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: eBook, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $13.00
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Stories
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: eBook, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $13.00
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In the Eye of the Sun
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 3, 2000
Price: $17.95
Set amidst the turmoil of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, this marvelously vivid novel by an Egyptian journalist is an intimate look into the often hidden lives of Arab women today. It tells the story of Asya, a brilliant young woman who grows up in the luxurious world of the Egyptian elite... Read more >
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 3, 2000
Price: $17.95
Set amidst the turmoil of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, this marvelously vivid novel by an Egyptian journalist is an intimate look into the often hidden lives of Arab women today. It tells the story of Asya, a brilliant young woman who grows up in the luxurious world of the Egyptian elite... Read more >
The Map of Love
A Novel
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $16.00
Booker Prize Finalist
With her first novel, In the Eye of the Sun, Ahdaf Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert, and George Eliot. In her latest novel, which was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, she combines the romantic skill of the nineteenth-century novelists with a very modern sense of culture and... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $16.00
Booker Prize Finalist
With her first novel, In the Eye of the Sun, Ahdaf Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert, and George Eliot. In her latest novel, which was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, she combines the romantic skill of the nineteenth-century novelists with a very modern sense of culture and... Read more >
Mezzaterra
Fragments from the Common Ground
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $14.95
From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love—an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.
The twenty-five years’ worth of criticism and commentary collected here have earned Ahdaf Soueif a... Read more >
Fragments from the Common Ground
Written by Ahdaf Soueif
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $14.95
From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love—an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.
The twenty-five years’ worth of criticism and commentary collected here have earned Ahdaf Soueif a... Read more >
