The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Stephen Richard Kerbs Exhibit Area
September 1, 2005
September 30, 2005
The Map of Love (hardback)
Soueif, Ahdaf
London: Bloomsbury
1999
(hardback)
Georgetown University Lauinger Library Special Collections
The Map of Love (paperback)
Soueif, Ahdaf
New York: Anchor Books
2000
Georgetown University Lauinger Library Special Collections
The Map of Love
Soueif, Ahdaf
New York: Anchor Books
2000
paperback
Georgetown University Lauinger Library Special Collections
Family Tree
From the beginning pages of The Map of Love, an illustration of the relations which connect the story's main characters.
In the Eye of the Sun
Soueif, Ahdaf
London: Bloomsbury
1992
Georgetown University Lauinger Library, New Acquisition
Sandpiper
Soueif, Ahdaf
London: Bloomsbury
1996
Georgetown University Lauinger Library
Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus
Margoliouth, D. S. (David Samuel), 1858-1940
London: Chatto & Windus
1907
Georgetown University Lauinger Library
The Sentinel of the Nile
Tyrwhitt, W.S.S.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1907
Georgetown University Lauinger Library,
llustrations from Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus
A Courtyard Near the Tent-makers' Bazaar, Cairo
Tyrwhitt, W.S.S.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1907
Georgetown University Lauinger Library
llustrations from Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus:
Photograph of Travelers in Egypt
Leslie, Shane, 1885-1971
Georgetown University Lauinger Library,Special Collections Division, Manuscripts Collection
Visitors to the Sphinx and Great Pyramid located in the area of Giza near Cairo; ca. ?
Le Fumeur Egyptien, ca. 1865-1868.
Gerome, Jean-Léon, 1824-1904
etching on laid paper
11 x 8.6 cm
Georgetown University Fine Print Collection
Jean-Léon Gérôme was one of the most renowned and successful of the "academic" painters and sculptors in France in the late nineteenth century, artists who had undergone rigorous formal training to produce refined works of art based upon careful observation. Many of his works reflected a trend known as "orientalism," which depicted, in art and literature, actual or imagined scenes and people of the Near and Middle East. Gérôme had visited Egypt and other locales on several visits. Le Fumeur Egyptien (The Egyptian Smoker) is one of only four etchings that he completed. In time, place, and circumstance, Le Fumeur Egyptien is not far removed from the setting of The Map of Love.
1869 Egypt Diary
Barnum, Francis, 1849-1921
From the Rev. Francis A. Barnum, S.J. Papers,
This diary, kept by Georgetown University Archivist Francis A. Barnum, S.J. (1849-1921), records the events of his trip across the Sinai Desert in 1869. Fr. Barnum writes, "After having spent two months on the Nile, I returned to Cairo, and began the necessary preparations for the long journey through the great Deserts of the Siniatic Peninsula..." He speaks of purchasing tents, furniture and cooking utensils, selecting camels and dromedaries, and entering into negotiations with the envoys of the Sheiks of the different tribes, through whose territory the route lay.
The Rev. Francis A. Barnum, S.J., was born in Baltimore in 1849. After joining the Society of Jesus, he spent time traveling the world, lived for many years in Alaska, and finally settled at Georgetown, where he was made archivist. He died in 1921.
Fr. Barnum's travel journal touches on some of the same topics recorded by Anna Winterbourne in her diary.
Boyle of Cairo
Boyle, Clara
Kendal: Titus Wilson & Son
1965
This book, written by the wife of Harry Boyle, is referred to near the end of The Map of Love when Isabel gives it as a gift to Amal, who discovers that the letter presented to Lord Cromer in 1906 was actually written by Boyle. Photograph of Lord Cromer and his staff taken from this book.
"I leaf again through Clara Boyle's memoir, looking at the pictures, reading a paragraph here and a sentence there. Suddenly I am arrested by a phrase I have come across before: 'How can one arrive at the planet Souad?'
An hour later I am still sitting with the book on my knee and, on the table in front of me, the letter Anna had in such agitation given to her husband as he planted the young cypress tree for Nur back in 1906. Oh, how angry I am, and how I wish I could tell him! 'If people can write to each other across space,' Isabel had asked, 'why can they not write across time too?' But how do you write to the past? Once more I read Clara Boyle's words, written in 1965:
About 1906 there had been some disagreement between Lord Cromer and the Foreign Office in connection with a point of policy to be followed in Egypt. Lord Cromer had sent a dispatch to London, which had had no effect.
As a last resort Harry then submitted a paper which was to give a true picture of the workings of the oriental mind; it was supposed to be the translation of a letter which had reached him secretly, and as such it was transmitted to the Foreign Office. Only Lord Cromer himself knew the truth - that the original letter was written by Harry Boyle himself."
quoted from The Map of Love, page 492-493.
"Isabel is delighted at my obvious pleasure as we study the photograph of Harry Boyle, looking just as I had imagined him, with a long, straggly moustache and a crumpled collar, and there is even a photograph of Toti."
quoted from The Map of Love, page 489.
The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt
Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
London: Thomas Cook & Son
1902
Georgetown University Lauinger Library, Special Collections
Egypt
Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency
Guide Plan of Cairo
The Survey of Egypt
1947
Georgetown University Lauinger Library Special Collections, Manuscripts Collection
The British Empire, 1815-1914
New York: Continuum
1981
In Historical Atlas of Britain, p. 142.
The United States Since 1900
In Atlas of World History, p. 240
Plate featuring Pharaonic Scene
from the private collection of Brenda Bickett
Painting on Papyrus, modern reproduction
from the private collection of Brenda Bickett
