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Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif's books include The Map of Love and In the Eye of the Sun. Her articles include "The language of the veil", "It provides the one window through which we can breathe" and "Nile Blues".

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openDemocracy’s public meeting on 7 March 2002 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London addressed the theme of ‘Women, Islam and Modernity’. The novelist Ahdaf Soueif said it is poverty, not Islam, that breeds the extremes.