AHDAF SOUEIF: TWO UPCOMING EVENTS

Organisation: Southbank Centre (19 Jan) | Mosaic Rooms (20 Jan)

Time: 19 January 2012 7:45pm - 20 January 2012 9:00pm

Place: Southbank Centre (19 Jan) | Mosaic Rooms (20 Jan)

AHDAF SOUEIF: TWO UPCOMING EVENTS

In her new book, Cairo: My City, Our Revolution, Ahdaf Soueif interweaves her memories of growing up in Cairo with her thoughts on the events in Tahrir Square, marking the first anniversary of the Arab Spring.

Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25th she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for eighteen days. She reported for the world’s media and did – like everyone else – whatever she could.

In this unique and beautiful personal document of an extraordinary moment in history, Ahdaf Soueif – novelist, commentator, activist – navigates her history of Cairo and her journey through the Revolution that is redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian.

Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling novels The Map of Love (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and In the Eye of the Sun, Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground, a collection of essays positioned at the intersection of culture and politics, and I Think of You, a collection of short stories. She writes regularly for the Guardian in the UK and al-Shorouk in Egypt, and is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest.

Southbank Centre Presents:
Ahdaf Soueif
19 January 2012 | 19:45
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX.
Tickets: £8 (+ £1.75 booking fee)

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The Mosaic Rooms Presents:
Ahdaf Soueif in conversation with Omar Al-Qattan
20 January 2012 | 19:00
The Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
Tickets are free but places are strictly limited.

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