Maggie Shnayerson

You should hear her talk about the camels.

Wonderful friend Ahdaf Soueif, just back from Tahrir Square, is wrapping up this week’s stateside visit tonight at Alwan for the Arts, where Amy Goodman will interview Soueif and her 26-year-old filmmaker son, Omar Robert Hamilton, who also took part in the revolution. (Check out his latest project—and donate!—here.) And by all means, come tonight!

Above, Soueif’s appearance earlier this week on Democracy Now! with Goodman and Sharif Abdel Kouddous.

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif on Egypt’s Revolution: “People Were Rediscovering Themselves”