**Ahdaf Soueif *is the author of two novels, In the Eye of the Sun and The Map of Love , which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1999; a story collection, I Think of You; and an essay collection, * Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground. She lives in Cairo, where she was born.

**Ahdaf Soueif *is the author of two novels, In the Eye of the Sun and The Map of Love , which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1999; a story collection, I Think of You; and an essay collection, * Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground. She lives in Cairo, where she was born.