Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif is a novelist and a writer on political and cultural affairs. Her latest novel, The Map of Love, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. She was born in Egypt and lives in Cairo and London.
From the Review
June 22, 2006: In Tora Prison (letter)
August 11, 2005: Ian Hamilton (letter)
From New York Review Books
 | Prisoner of Love Genet's final masterpiece, written and rewritten on his deathbed, is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world. |