# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laila-soueif
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:43:35.037Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laila-soueif"
name: "Laila Soueif"
slug: "laila-soueif"
description: "Laila Soueif 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."
tagline: "Egyptian activist, mathematician, professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Laila_Soueif_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.75108133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
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    title: "লায়লা সৌয়েফ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Soueif"
    title: "Laila Soueif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Soueif"
    title: "Laila Soueif"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
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    title: "Laila Soueif"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump