Meet the Author: Ahdaf Soueif in Conversation with Nina Ellis

The Department of English and Comparative Literature (ECLT) and the Literature Club are thrilled to welcome Professor of Practice Ahdaf Soueif, one of our most important living Egyptian novelists, to discuss her groundbreaking, wide-ranging writing and activism. Professor Soueif’s brilliant bestselling novel The Map of Love, which appears on The American University in Cairo’s ECLT and core curricula, was nominated for the Booker Prize and translated into dozens of languages. Her other works of fiction and nonfiction include In the Eye of the Sun, I Think of You, Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed and This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature. It is an honor to host Professor Soueif and to have this very special opportunity to ask her our questions about the art and craft of writing.