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The Conversation online livestream is a series of weekly events talking about conflict and empathy, inequality and power, climate crisis and wonder through storytelling and action, available wherever you are in the world.  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.

In addition to this interview being available to watch live, it can be streamed up to 30 days after the event has taken place.

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