As reports emerge that former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak could be released this week, we speak to the acclaimed Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif. A prominent backer of the 2011 Tahrir Square, Soueif ...

Joining us from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Egyptian writer and activist Ahdaf Soueif says the refusal by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to run an inclusive government has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the author of ‘Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground’ It is not seemly, in the face of ...

In the three years since former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power by one of the largest mass uprisings in human history, Egypt, political and geographic linchpin of the Middle East, has ...

The new book by the world-famous author and member of an elite revolutionary family will be available in Arabic by April Cairo: My City, Our Revolution Ahdaf Soueif, London: Bloomsbury, 2012. Soueif's ...

Ahdaf Soueif, one of Egypt's most prominent English language novelists, tackles the January 25 Revolution in her new book about Cairo, 18 years after signing the contract with her publisher Eighteen ...

Disagreements between museum trustees usually remain behind closed doors, but the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif has resigned from the board of London’s British Museum, making public her reasons for ...

Ahdaf Soueif isn’t in one place for long. She has spent the last month touring India and Australia, and is back in her native Egypt for a few days before heading to London. She is in demand for ...

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