Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed

ISBN-13: 9781408830505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Ahdaf Soueif

Opis

Ahdaf Soueif - novelist, commentator, activist - takes us through her city of Cairo and traces the path of the revolution that's redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record, she charts a story of the revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian.

Recenzje

Captures the intoxicating romance of the weeks when anything seemed possible. Souief 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

O autorze

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 has been awarded the Blue Metropolis Literary Prize (in Montreal) and the Constantin Cavafis Award (in Cairo and Athens), and is also the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, for which she was awarded the Hay Medal for Festivals in 2017. 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.