Laila Soueif

Laila Soueif
Soueif with her daughter Mona Seif
Born1956 (age 69–70)
London, England, UK
Alma materCairo University
OccupationsMathematician, 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-British human and women's rights activist and a professor of mathematics at Cairo University. She is the widow of Ahmed Seif El-Islam, and she is mother of activists: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Sanaa Seif, and Mona Seif. Her sister is the novelist Ahdaf Soueif.