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Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of the best-selling novel The Map of Love, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1999, as well as Mezzaterra: Fragments 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.
