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Ahdaf Soueif (born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator. ==Life and career== Soueif was born in Cairo, where she lives, and educated in Egypt and England. She studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster.〔"Ahdaf Soueif" in ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Gale. November 11, 2003.〕 Her debut novel, ''In the Eye of the Sun'' (1993), set in Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian who, by her own admission, "feels more comfortable with art than with life." Her second novel ''The Map of Love'' (1999) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,〔Nash, Geoffrey (2002). "Ahdaf Soueif" in Molino, Michael R. (ed.) ''Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 267: Twenty-First-Century British and Irish Novelists''. Gale: pp. 314–321.〕 has been translated into 21 languages and sold over a million copies.〔Mahjoub, Jamal (2011)"Selmeyyah" in "Guernica Magazine" March 15, 2011. ()〕 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.〔Attalah, Lina in Mada Masr()〕 She translated Mourid Barghouti's ''I Saw Ramallah'' (with a foreword by Edward Said) from Arabic into English. Along with her readings of Egyptian history and politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in her fiction and non-fiction. 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''. In 2008 she initiated the first Palestine Festival of Literature, of which she is the Founding Chair. Ahdaf Soueif is also a cultural and political commentator for the ''Guardian'' newspaper and she has been reporting on the Egyptian revolution. In January 2012 she published ''Cairo: My City, Our Revolution'' – a personal account of the first year of the Egyptian revolution. Her sister Laila Soueif as both her nephew and niece, Alaa Abd El-Fatah and Mona Seif, are notable activists. She was married to Ian Hamilton with whom she had two sons, Omar Robert Hamilton and Ismail Richard Hamilton. In June 2013, Soueif and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ahdaf Soueif」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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