Your Egypt

[Winky]

Here she tells the editors about whats going on in Egypt and about her nephew Allaa :

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19111



http://www.hamsaweb.com/alaa
Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance (HAMSA), Ahdaf Soueif


:?: Did you read her book The eye of the sun

8) Soueif is said to have used elements of the story of how Alaa’s parent met each other in her novel In the Eye Of The Sun.
Alaa’s father, Ahmed Seif Al Islam, was a communist activist in the 1960s and a frequent guest of Nasser’s jails.
As a political prisoner, he got occasional visits home on the understanding that he would come back. He decided to run away with his young wife, Alaa’s mother (activist and professor Leila Soueif, Adhaf’s sister , and apparently fathered his first-born.
When he voluntarily returned to the prison weeks later, the story goes, the prison guards congratulated him on being a future father.