← Ahdaf SoueifMezzaterraby Ahdaf SoueifEssays on Egyptian politics, the Suez Crisis, and political commitmentFind on Amazon↗About the authorAhdaf SoueifEgyptian-British novelist whose In the Eye of the Sun is a vast novel of Egyptian intellectual and romantic life. The Map of Love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is one of the most celebrated Arab novelists writing in English.More by Ahdaf SoueifIn the Eye of the SunEgyptian woman intellectually awakens amid political upheaval and marriage→The Map of LoveDual-timeline romance linking 1920s Egypt with contemporary political conflict→Sandpiper→Cairo: My City, Our RevolutionMemoir reflecting on Cairo's 2011 revolution and personal activism→
