Cairo by Ahdaf Soueif

Cairo by Ahdaf Soueif

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

Captures the intoxicating romance of the weeks when anything seemed possibleSouief writes with verve and passion, offering the authentic voice of the liberal Egyptian who risked everything because she wanted her country to have freedom and democracy * Daily Telegraph *
Should serve as a heartening reminder of what people are capable of achieving when united and courageous * The Economist *
There's a passionate immediacy to Soueif's febrile descriptions of those halcyon first days of revolution ... Soueif is an excellent observer * Metro *
Soueif is a political analyst and commentator of the best kind * London Review of Books *

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of Aisha, Sandpiper, In the Eye of the Sun and the bestselling novel The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. Her collection of cultural and political essays, Mezzaterra, was published in 2004, as was her translation of I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti. She is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest.

Ahdaf Soueif is also a journalist and her work is syndicated throughout the world. For the last five years she has been a key political commentator on Egypt and Palestine, and throughout the 2011 uprisings in Cairo Adhaf Soueif reported front the ground for the Guardian, and appeared on television and radio. She lives in London and Cairo.

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ISBN 13	9781408830505
ISBN 10	1408830507
Title	Cairo
Author	Ahdaf Soueif
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2014-01-16
Number of pages	272
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