These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. 4 However, Aboulela writes that she wishes to counter these ‘stereotypical images of famine and war’ by depicting Sudan as ‘a valid place’ in her writing. 3 Now the genocide in the western region of Darfur, the discovery and exploitation of oil resources, the designation of Sudan as a state assisting international terrorism, and the referendum on southern Sudanese secession receive much critical attention. Recent Sudanese history has been marked by ferocious civil wars between the powerful northern Arab Muslims, the subjugated southern African Christians, the communists, and sharia-endorsing religious parties. It should be noted that Egypt has had long cultural and migratory interaction with the Muslim Arab people of northern Sudan, 2 and Aboulela, with her dual parentage, is more aware than most of this shared heritage. Egypt and Sudan were both colonized by Britain, although they had very different experiences of colonial occupation, which are discussed in this interview and in Aboulela’s most recent novel. The daughter of a Sudanese man and an Egyptian woman, 1 Aboulela was born in Cairo in 1964, but grew up in Khartoum.
Writing is her main career, and she also brings up her youngest child.
Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer, previously resident in Britain, who now lives in Doha, Qatar.
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