The Conversation: Ahdaf Soueif

(Tuesday 18th February 2025)

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The Conversation is a series of weekly events talking about conflict and empathy, inequality and power, climate crisis and wonder through storytelling and action. The first half of the evening is an interview, which is followed by the host and guest joining the audience around tables to take the conversation further.  Everyone is welcome.

A conversation with the novelist about language and action, about freedom and hope and purpose. Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling In the Eye of the Sun and The Map of Love (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999 and translated into more than 30 languages). Her non-fiction account of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, Cairo: a City Transformed and her collection of essays Mezzaterra have established her as a powerful and trusted voice in and far beyond the MENA world. In 2007 she co-founded PALFEST, the Palestine Festival of Literature, which takes place annually in occupied Palestine. Among other honours, Ahdaf Soueif was awarded the first Mahmoud Darwish Award in 2010 and the European Culture Foundation Princess Margriet Award in 2019. In 2020, after serving for 7 years, she resigned from the British Museum Board of Trustees.

Chaired by Peter Florence.