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Abstract Born in 1950, Ahdaf Soueif has grown up as an Egyptian in the rixties. At that particular time, to be Egyptian means to be multicultural who Ibears a Muslim / Christian / Egyptian / Arab / African / Mediterranean / INOn-aligned / Socialist culture and speaking English and\ or French if you rare from the middle class. Later, she moved to England for study and settled Idown there to share in the public life of England; the country that has become her ’other home’. Soueif, within this context, interacts intcrculturally everyday. Living in London. she has gone through the experience of alienation, refuting the misconception about Muslims and Arabs. Therefore, Soueif’s writings come to investigate the problem of representation as well as the possibilities of cultural dialogue within. the mainstream of Muslim Arab Narrative. These two topics arc demonstrated in Soucif’s two novels, The Map ofLove and In the Eye ofthe Su», ’where the dvnamic encounter of the East and West, of Arabic 0!1d English, and of men J ~. and women takes place within a context or politics. culture. history and geography. All are interlinked and cannot be disentangled. |