User:The Egyptian Liberal/Laila Soueif

Laila Soueif (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.

Early life and career
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.

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, 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. Leila Soueif is currently working as Professor of Mathematics at the Cairo University.

Scientific activities



 * Soueif, Laila (1987): Normalizing extensions and injective modules, essentially bounded normalizing extensions. Communications in Algebra, Volume 15, Issue 8 1987، pages 1607 - 1619
 * Soueif, Laila (1990): Exchange of properties in normalizing extensions

Political activism
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: