[3] Ahdaf Soueif's debut novel, In the Eye of the Sun (1993), set in Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian woman who, by her own admission, "feels more comfortable with art than with life".

A shorter version of Under the Gun: A Palestinian Journey was originally published in The Guardian and then printed in full in Soueif's 2004 collection of essays, Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground, and she wrote the introduction to the New York Review Books 2003 reprint of Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love.

[15] However she resigned in 2019 complaining about BP's sponsorship, the reluctance to re-hire workers transferred to Carillion and lack of engagement with repatriating artworks.

[17][18] In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Soueif signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.

The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few.

[27] She has also been the recipient of several literary awards: Marta Cariello: "Bodies Across: Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Faqir, Diana Abu Jaber" in Al Maleh, Layla (ed.