On May 15th, Nakba Day, we have the honor to host Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator Ahdaf Soueif, who will talk about Palestine.

Ahdaf Souief is an author and key political commentator on Egypt and Palestine. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Aisha (1983) and Sandpiper (1996), and two novels, In the Eye of the Sun (1992), about a young Egyptian woman's life in Egypt and England set against key events in the history of modern Egypt, and The Map of Love (1999), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Her most recent work is Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (2012), a personal account of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

Ahdaf Soueif lives in London and Cairo. She writes regularly for The Guardian and al-Shoruq and is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, Pal Fest.