Laila Soueif

Laila Soueif
Soueif with her daughter Mona Seif
Born1956 (age 6869)
London, England, UK
NationalityEgyptian and British
Alma materCairo University
Occupation(s)Mathematician, academic, human and women's rights activist
SpouseAhmed Seif El-Islam
ChildrenAlaa Abd El-Fattah
Mona Seif
Sanaa Seif
RelativesAhdaf Soueif (sister)

Laila Soueif (Arabic: ليلى سويف; born 1956) is an Egyptian human and women's rights activist and a professor of mathematics at Cairo University. She is the widow of fellow activist Ahmed Seif El-Islam, and all three of their children are noted activists: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Sanaa Seif, and Mona Seif. Her sister is the novelist Ahdaf Soueif.