Ahdaf Soueif
Born
in Cairo , Egypt
March 23, 1950
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Genre
The Map of Love
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48 editions
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1999
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In the Eye of the Sun
19 editions
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1993
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زينة الحياة
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Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
18 editions
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2012
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I Think of You: Stories
10 editions
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1996
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في مواجهة المدافع: رحلة فلسطينية
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5 editions
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1999
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Aisha
7 editions
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1983
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Sandpiper
4 editions
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1996
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Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground
8 editions
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2004
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Reflections on Islamic Art
5 editions
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2011
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“She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .”
― In the Eye of the Sun
― In the Eye of the Sun
“Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day and asks if I think her new tablecloth is pretty. We are living in difficult times and it is not enough for a person to be interested in his home and his job - in his own personal life. I need my partner to be someone to whom I can turn, confident of her sympathy, believing her when she tells me I'm in the wrong, strengthened when she tells me I'm in the right. I want to love, and be loved back - but what I see is not love or companionship but a sort of transacton of convenience santioned by religion and society and I do not want it.”
― The Map of Love
― The Map of Love
“You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--”
― In the Eye of the Sun
― In the Eye of the Sun
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