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    2013    
         
      Jul 8 10.00 Bantry House Tearoom Coffee and Chat
         
      Jul 7 20.30 West Cork Festival
         
      Jun 4 18.30 Columbia University Middle East Research Center Amman
         
      May 5 18:00 Words on Water, Sawi Culture Wheel, Cairo
         
      Mar 11 Presentation at the University of Malta
         
      Mar 10 Keynote address at the European Writer's Conference "Mare Nostrum", Malta
         
      Mar 9 Ahdaf will be doing various events at the Women of the World Festival on the South Bank, London
         
     

 

Mar 4

Mar 2

ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK

12:00 In Conversation

17:00 Writing about Cairo - with Parker Bilal
         
      Feb 26 18:00 Seymoure Center Events - York Theatre
         
      Feb 25 SYDNEY IDEAS
12:00 Guest of Margaret Throsby: The Midday Interview weekdays on ABC Classic FM.
         
     



Feb 23


Feb 23


Feb 21

Perth Writers Festival

18.30 The Shape of Things to Come
at the Romeo Tent with Loretta Napoleoni, Julian Bolleter and Tim Soutphommasane

12.30 A Love Letter to Cairo
at Winthrop Hall with Parker Bilal

19:00 Opening address - ON ART and POLITICS
at the Octagon Thetare
         
      Feb 9

MUMBAI Kalaghoda Festival

17:45 – Moderated talk on Cairo Uprisings – leading a global phenomenon with festival Director, David Sasoon Library, Mumbai (1 hour duration)
         
      Feb 8

DELHI
15:00 - Maharshi Karve Lecture Series 2013 on "Women in the Public Sphere: A Perspective from Egypt and UK" at SNDT University, Juhu
         
      Feb 7

DELHI
16:00 – Talk at the Jawaharlal Nehru University with students of Literature, culture, political science and others
         
      Feb 6

DELHI
18:00 – Discussion on the theme of Home in the 21st century and its implications on dual citizenship and when crisis brews. In conversation with Dr. Shashi Tharoor at the Auditorium, IGNCA, Man Singh Road
(open event followed by a reception)
         
      Feb 3 TEDx RANCHI
         
      Feb 1

Session at Kolkata Literary Meet at the Kolkata Book Fair
12:30 - Evolution of a revolution- unrest, upheaval change
15:20 - Arabesque
Ahdaf Soueif, Haifa Zangana and Reema Hamami (Palestine) discuss writings by women in times of conflict.

         
      Jan 31

KOLKATA
11:00 - Moderated talk at the University of Kolkata
15:00 - Roundtable moderated talk with Research Fellows at the Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies.
         
      Jan 28

JAIPUR Literary Festival
11:15 to 12:15 - "Maps of Love and Hate: Nationalism and Arab Literature"
12:30 to 13:30 -Taming the Gods: Religion and Politics
15:30 to 16:30 - Launch: "A Life Apart", the English version of Prabha Khaitan's famed autobiography
17:00 - Informal interaction at the Literary Café, British Council Library Lounge at the JLF, and book signing
         
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      Oct 2 Royal Society of Literature: From Words to Action
         
      Sep 21-25 A Room for London
         
      Sep 17

5X5: Tales of inspiration, adventure and intrigue including Simon Singh on the Enigma code; Kathy Lette on her latest novel; Patrick Hennessy on serving in Afghanistan; Ahdaf Soueif on Egypt and Kwasi Kwarteng on empire.
         
      Sep 15 The Arab Revolutions; What You Need to Know
The SouthBank Centre, London
         
      Sep 6 ESSE 2012, European Society For The Study of English biannual international conference
Bogazici University, Istanbul
         
     
Aug 17
Aug 18

The Edinburgh Festival:
Should Literature Be Political?
The Amnesty Event: The Writer and the Egyptian Revolution
         
      Jun 9-10

Hay-on-Wye:
Saturday 9 June 2012: Reflections on Islamic Art
Sunday 10 June 2012: Cairo - My City, Our Revolution

         
      May 31 18.30 London School of Economics
         
      May 30 Unity Theatre: The Arab Spring with Ahdaf Soueif
         
      May 28 Asia House, London
         
      May 25 Charleston Literary Festival with Jon Snow
         
      May 24 7:00 pm Edward Said Annual Lecture at the British Museum, London
         
      May 19 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
         
      May 15 Ahdaf Soueif book-signing at Diwan Zamalek
         
      May 3-8 PALFEST GAZA
         
      May 2 7:00pm: Caravan, CAIRO
         
      Apr 29 - May 1 BQFP Translation Conference, Doha
         
      Apr 22 4.30 Otawwa Festival: Interview with Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif in Montreal
MacLeans article. Gazette article.
         
      Apr 21

Blue Metropolis Festival, Montreal.
11:00 Novelist, journalist and political commentator, as well as the Arab world’s most prominent female writer, Ahdaf Soueif discusses her work and the latest from Egypt, on stage with CBC’s Paul Kennedy.
19:00 One of the best-known Arab writers in the world talks about the Arab spring and how people are challenging old ideas in today’s Egypt as it goes through massive change.
         
      March 24 Guardian Weekend, London.
Ahdaf discusses a tumultuous epoch in the Arab world with Waddah Khanfar, former director general of al-Jazeera. With the Guardian's former Egypt correspondent Jack Shenker, and chaired by Kath Viner.
         
      Mar 13 14.30 Skype talk with GAZA
         
      Mar 12 "Wriring in a Time of Revolution". AUB, BEIRUT
         
      Mar 9 Meeting Points, Athens
         
      Mar 1 5.30 Cairo University, English Department Cultural Club
         
      Jan 20 The Mosaic Rooms
         
      Jan 19 7.45pm South Bank Centre, London
         
      Jan 18 Woman's Hour: Ahdaf Soueif talks about her latest book Cairo: My City, Our Revolution.
         
      Jan 17 7pm Frontline Club, London
         
      Jan 14 Meeting Points 6, Berlin
         
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      Nov 21 Reflections on Islamic Art  (Ahdaf Soueif ed.) launched in Doha
         
      Nov 16-21 Sharjah International Book Fair, Arabic Litrature (in English)
         
      Oct 8

17:00 King's Place, Notes and Letters
         
      Oct 7 19.00: Wimbledon BookFest
         
      Oct 6 Launch for Caabu 500 Club with talk by Dr Ahdaf Soueif
         
      Sep 30 Free Word, London: International Translation Day. Related article.
         
      Aug 28 Edinburgh Book Fair: DEBATE: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
         
      Aug 27 Festival of Politics, Edinburgh
         
      Aug 26 Edinburgh Book Fair: AHDAF SOUEIF & HISHAM MATAR WITH ALLAN LITTLE
         
      Aug 20  The Bidoun Library Series at the Serpentiner gallery, London
         
      Apr 30 & May 7 Global Room for Women
         
      Apr 15-21 PALFEST
         
      Apr 2-4 BQFP Translation Conference, Doha
         
      Mar 31 Art sale at the Brunei Gallery in support of the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest)
         
      Mar 30 In Conversation at the Frontline Club
         
      Mar 18 The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC: Maximum India: Politics and Literature
         
      Mar 17  6.30  CodePink event at Busboys and Poets Washington DC
         
      Mar 11 Alwan NYC , (Video)
         
      Mar 9 Columbia BookCulture Bookshop, In Conversation with Yvertte Christianse
         
      March 8

The Edward Said Annual Lecture, Room 417, International Affairs Building
Sponsored by The Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Kayman Center
         
      Feb 26 Marching towards Tahrir: Revolutionary momentum from Sidi Bouzid to Benghazi
Conversation and analysis with Ahdaf Soueif and Gilbert Achcar
         
      Feb 24

"In Conversation",  the British Museum, London

British museum
         
      Feb 23 AlJazeera International: Riz Khan
BBC  Radio 4 Four Thought
         
      Feb 22 Four Thought for the BBC at the Royal Society of Art
         
      Jan 25 10:00 The New Non-Fiction
         
      Jan 24

15:30 Books that Made Me

17:00 Jaipur Festival: Imperial English
         
      Jan 23 17:00 Jaipur Festival: The Arab Novel Outside Arabic
         
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      Nov 24

Keynote Address at Launch of al-Shurouq Penguin Joint Project, Cairo

Dr. Soueif's speech in English, and in Arabic
         
      Nov 11-14 " Our Shared Europe" - Literature Seminar, at Seehotel Zeuthen near Berlin
Click here.
         
      Nov 6 "Introducing Mourid and Tamim Barghouti", Poetry International, The South Bank, London
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      Oct 31

"Reflections" a public symposium on the Permanent Collection. The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Click here for event details, and click here for images.

         
      June 19 With Hisham Matar at the London Review Bookshop
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      May 29 With Henning Mankell at Hay-on-Wye
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      May 27 Presentation: Fabricating the Truth: the Politics of Representation
Palazzo Comitini (Sala Martorana), Palermo
         
      May19-20 Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Launch and Conference, Doha
         
      April 28 In Conversation with Samia Mehrez, Translation, American University in Cairo
         
      April 12 In Conversation with Caroline Rooney, Literature and Modernity, Cairo University
         
      Mar 23- Apr 2 India Tour – information from womenunltd@vsnl.net
         
      Mar 15 Barnard College Symposium, Dubai
         
      Mar 10-13 Emirates Airlines Book Festival, Dubai
         
      Feb 28 Keynote Speech at International Publishers' Association Symposium, Abu Dhabi
         
      Feb 7 Book signing at al-Shurouk Bookshop, Zamalek
         
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      Nov 26 Launched A World I Loved and introduced Mariam Said and Najla Said at the Mosaic Rooms, London
         
      Nov 19-24 AiM Biennale, Morocco
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      Oct 8 Launch: Egypt, the Moment of Change at SOAS
         
      Oct 6 Wimbledon Bookfest
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      Jul 30 Bloomsbury/Qatar Literary Club (London)
Qatar Tribune
Saudi Gazette
Gulf Times
         
      Jul 11 Oxfam Bookfest (Cheltenham)
         
      Jul 8 British Council Panel on Cultural Leadership
         
      Jun 5-9 Venice, The First Palestinian Pavilion at the Biennale
         
      May 22-29 PALFEST 09.
Click here.
         
      May 6 "Literature as Resistance", University of Hull, Annual Lecture
Click here.
         
      Apr 17 University of Exeter conference: Britain and the Muslim World
         
      Mar 30 Alwan for the Arts (NY): Reading and Discussion:
Jean Genet's "Un Captif Amoureux" (Prisoner of Love) with an Introduction by Ahdaf Soueif
Click here.
         
      Mar 12 Guest on the James Zogby show, broadcast on LinkTV & AbuDhabi TV
Click here.
         
      Mar 9 "A Literary Celebration" Kennedy Centre, Washington DC.
         
      Mar 7 "In Other Words: Expatriate Arab Literature" Kennedy Centre, Washington DC.
         
      Mar 6 Judson Memorial Church, New York: "The Art of Resistance: Culture and the Boycott of Israel", panel with
Omar Barghouti and Remi Kanazi. Moustafa Bayoumi moderating. This is the closing panel of "Israeli Apartheid
Week" taking place in New York City and more than 40 cities around the world. Click here.
         
      Mar 5 Moderator: "Migration, Exile and the Search for Identity." Kennedy Centre, Washington DC.
         
      Feb 23 Gala Opening "Arabesque: Art of the Arab World," Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, Washington DC.
Click here.
         
      Jan 24

Cairo Book Fair:
15.00 - 15.45: Literary cafe: Hall 15A, UK Stand
Ahdaf Soueif interviewing Sudanese-British writer Jamal Mahjoub. Read Review
         
      Jan 23 Cairo Book Fair:
14.00 - 14.45: Literary cafe: Hall 15A, UK Stand
16.30 - 18.00: Panelist, Inspiration from Other Cultures
         
      Jan 22 Cairo Book Fair:
Chair, Engaging Young People with Ancient Egypt
15.00 - 17.15 Hall 15, 6 October Building
         
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      Nov 24-28 The Map of Love on the Guardian Book Club, week1, week2 , week3
         
      Nov 17 Royal Society of Literature, London, Panel on The Arabian Nights with Marina Warner
         
      Nov 14 Guest Speaker, Welfare Association, Dubai, photo
         
      Nov 6 Palfest 09 Launch, photo
         
      Oct 6 Presentation at Shaikh Ebrahim Bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research, Bahrain. photo
         
      Jul 9 Hon DLitt from Exeter University
Click here & here to read related articles
Click here to listen to Ahdaf's speech
         
      Jul 5 "Literature as Resistance" with Jacqueline Rose
         
      Jul 4 "Late at the Tate" with Francine Stock
         
      May 25 Speaking for al-Mawred, Beirut
         
      May 23 Speaking for al-Mawred, Cairo
         
      May 16 'Front Row' review of Caramel (BBC Radio 4)
         
      May 7-11 Palestine Festival of Literature.
http://www.palestinelitfest.org
         
      Apr 24 Introduces "Genet in Chatilla", Palestine Film Festival, Barbican, London.
http://www.palestinefilm.org/2008/synopsis.asp#14
         
      Apr 18 Inaugurates the Palestine Film Festival at the Barbican, London.
http://www.palestinefilm.org/
         
      Apr 4 Conversation at the Alhambra Hay Festival @ 12.00 - 13.00
http://www.hayfestival.com/alhambra/programme-fri.html
         
      Mar 24 "Nightwaves" 22:15-23:00 (Radio 3) Ahdaf talks about Shamm el-Nesim
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/nightwaves/pip/7jiap
         
      Mar 18 Gives the Eton Award for best essay on Arab subject, Eton, UK.
         
      Mar 10 Keynote address at the International prize for Arabic Fiction in Abu Dhabi.
Photo

         
      Mar 5 The British International School in Cairo presents an evening "conversation" with Dr. Ahdaf Soueif
Casbon Hall @ 7pm.
         
      Jan 15 Lecture titled "There is no 'I' " at the De Burne cultural centre in Brussels
         
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      Dec 7

Palestine Solidarity Campaign Christmas Concert
VOICES FOR BETHLEHEM
         
      Nov 30 RHYTHMS OF PEACE CONCERT
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      Nov 15

SOAS Palestine Society & LSESU Palestine Society:
Ahdaf Soueif Chaired the book launch of:
Desiring Arabs By Joseph Massad
         
      Nov 8 Ahdaf took part in Question Time on BBC 1
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      Jul 4-8

Festa Literaria International de Parati (FLIP)
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Ahdaf's Page
         
      Jun 23 4pm: Memorial to the Iraq War: Ahdaf Soueif at the Nash Room, ICA, London
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      May 21 6.30 SOAS - Conversation with Omar al-Qattan, Haim Bresheeth and Laleh Khalili
Khalili Lecture Theatre, Thomhaugh Street, Russell Square, London
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      Apr 27 Opened the Palestine Film Festival, the Barbican, London
Click Here.
         
      Apr 25 Chaired the Q&A session following the screening of the film "SINCE YOU LEFT" by Director Mohammed Bakri - at Whirled Cinema, London.
Click Here.
         
      Apr 17 London Book Fair
Seminars - Wicked Issues 2 :
A Spotlight on Egypt: Cultural Bridges and the Translation of Arabic Literature
Click Here.
         
      Mar 17 Helped celebrate Diwan Bookshop's fifth birthday, Cairo Opera House
         
      Mar 7 Book signing at the Diwan Bookshop, Cairo
         
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      Nov 26 Attended the Camden Palestine festival 3:00-6:00 pm .
This is a celebration of Palestinian culture and an opportunity to update activists on the situation in Palestine.
Mian speaker: Dr. Azzam Tamimi.
         
      Oct 31 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at University of Warwick UK.
Event's blurb.
         
      Oct 13 Reading (with Palestinian poet, Mourid Barghouti) at
the Palestine Festival, Manchester.
         
      Oct 3 Reading for Wasafiri at the open University.
         
      Aug 26 Reading from her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
         
      Apl 21 Opened the Palestine Film Festival at the Barbican, London.
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      Apr 6 A public lecture at the American University of Cairo.
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Photos
         
      Mar 30 A public lecture at the American University of Beirut.
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      Mar 23

A benefit for MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians).
Other speakers are Helena Kennedy (MAP Chair) and Jon Snow.
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      Feb 9 The Amnesty International lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
         
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      Sep 10 Addressed the Freshman class of Georgetown University
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      Jun 24 Ahdaf Introduced Barones Uddin at the Kufa Gallery on behalf of al-Multaqa al-Thaqafi al-Arabi.

         
        Words Without Borders will be published in the Autumn. Ahdaf Soueif
introduces Hassan Khader and translates his essay "Splinters of Reality and Glass".
For Words Without Borders see: Click Here.
         
        Baghdad Burning, by Riverbend will be published by The Feminist Press,
New York in the Autumn. Preface by Ahdaf Soueif.
Riverbend's Blogspot is on Click Here.

For the book Click Here.
         
      Apr 26-30 Ahdaf Introduced Barones Uddin at the Kufa Gallery on behalf of al-Multaqa al-Thaqafi al-Arabi.  
         
      Apr 22 The Barbican, London. Inaugurate Palestine Film Festival
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      Apr 13 The Lensic Theatre for the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, USA. Introduce and Conversation with Amira Hass.
Click Here.
         
      Mar 29 Spoke at the Doha Conference on the Novel and History
         
      Mar 17 The Voice Box at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Introduce and Conversation with Helon Habila and Binyavanga Wainana, winners of the Caine Prize for African Writing. For Caine Prize Click Here.
         
      Feb 26 Spoke at the Cairo Conference on the Novel and History
         
      Feb 7 Al-Jazeera interview(Khairu Jalees) with Khaled al-Hroub and Amjad Nasser.
         
      Jan Ahdaf did a reading and discussion at the Cairo Book Fair. This was moderated by Muhammad Salmawi, Editor -in-Chielf of al-Ahram Ebdu.
         
        Ahdaf held a discussion with the Reading Club in HM Prison, Wandsworth