Ahdaf Soueif Livres

The story of the revolution and a personal journey into the city of Ahdaf Soueif's childhood

Exploring themes of Arab identity, art, and politics, this collection of essays delves into the concept of mezzaterra, or common ground, amidst globalization. The author, known for the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love, provides an incisive perspective on the complexities of cultural intersections and the shared experiences that shape contemporary society. Through thoughtful analysis, the essays aim to foster understanding and dialogue in a rapidly changing world.

Collected essays and journalism from one of our foremost writers: from cultural commentary to the war in Iraq

The great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England.

In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif's secret.

By the author of In The Eye Of The Sun, this superb collection of stories is united by the central character, an Egyptian girl growing up in both Egypt and Britain. The stories are populated by the characters she meets, each moving in their own world as Aisha grows up and travels in Cairo and London.

Selected stories from her previous books Sandpiper and Aisha collected together for the first time

From the Man Booker Nominee author of The Map of Love. Sandpiper is a collection of stories which provide insight into Egyptian and Western life and the links between them, looking at relationships within and across continents. People from many places - England, Alexandria, Istanbul - pass through defining crises in their relations with others. Most of them are women, and most find themselves in countries other than their own, where language, culture and prescribed emotions such as 'love' create confusion. New understandings are registered in intensely recalled moments and sensations.

In 'Baghdad Burning', a young Iraqi woman, using the pseudonym Riverbend, gives a human face to war and occupation. In this hard-hitting journal, she describes the day-to-day realities of life in post-war Iraq, which for her family and neighbours means regular power-cuts, bombings, kidnappings and raids.