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Laila Soueif
(Arabic: ليلى سويف)
Laila Soueif
Born
Laila Mustafa Soueif

(1956-05-01) May 1, 1956 (age 68)
NationalityEgyptian
Alma materUniversity of Poitiers
EmployerCairo University
SpouseAhmed Seif
ChildrenAlaa Abd El-Fattah and Mona Seif
Parent(s)Mustafa Soueif and Fatima Moussa
RelativesAlaa Soueif (Brother)
Ahdaf Soueif (Sister)

Laila Soueif (Arabic: ليلى سويف), is a Egyptian university professor, a political activist in the field of Human rights, and a founding member of the March 9 Movement and the Egyptian Association Against Torture[1].

Early life and career[edit]

Laila Soueif with her mother (Dr. Fatima Moussa) and her daughter, Mona

Laila Soueif belongs to a family of the Academics. She is the middle child of Dr. Mustafa Soueif (Professor of Psychology at the University of Cairo) and Dr. Fatima Moussa (Professor of English literature at the University of Cairo). She was born in May 1956 in London while her mother was doing her PhD in the British capital. She returned to Egypt when she was two years old then she left when she was seven for London again and stayed there for a year.[1]

Laila Soueif love for math started an early age and her father, Dr. Mustafa Soueif, encouraged her to study mathematic which led her to get a Bachelor of Mathematics,[1] then earn her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Poitiers in 1989. The title of her doctoral dissertation was: Transfer of Properties in Normalizing Extensions[2]. Leila Soueif is currently working as Professor of Mathematics at the Cairo University.

Scientific activities[edit]

Laila Soueif with her ​​daughter Mona during a march in Cairo.

Political activism[edit]

Laila Soueif began political work in a sixteen-year-old (year 1972 ), in a demonstration out of the University of Cairo after the arrest of a number of students in December 1971 . Laila Soueif says about these events:[1]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Wala Al-Chammlol (2006-08-30). "Laila Soueif: Arab women are oppressed". Onislam.net. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
  2. ^ a b Paulus Gerdes, p.108.
  3. ^ "Taylor & Francis Online: Normalizing extensions and injective modules, essentially bounded normalizing extensions - Communications in Algebra - Volume 15, Issue 8". Tandfonline.com. 2007-06-27. doi:10.1080/00927878708823491. Retrieved 2012-04-02. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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