ABSTRACT

Ahdaf Soueif, who belongs to the generation known as Jil el-thawra (the generation of the revolution) of 1952, also lived to witness the January revolution of 2011. In Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground (2004) and Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (2012) Soueif narrates her quest for a cosmopolitan common ground. Even though cosmopolitanism is one of the main subject matters in both texts, they exhibit different types of cosmopolitanism, as the event of the revolution is in fact the utopian cosmopolitanism that she always hoped for. If in Mezzaterra this takes the form of a yearning for a utopian cosmopolitanism, it is in Cairo’s Tahrir that she finds this through its collective outlook.

摘要

Ahdaf Soueif 属于 1952 年被称为Jil el-thawra（革命的一代）的一代，他也见证了 2011 年一月的革命。在Mezzaterra : Fragments from the Common Ground (2004) 和Cairo : My City ,我们的革命(2012) Soueif 讲述了她对世界性共同点的追求。尽管世界主义是两个文本的主要主题之一，但它们表现出不同类型的世界主义，因为革命事件实际上是她一直希望的乌托邦世界主义。如果在Mezzaterra这表现为对乌托邦世界主义的向往，那就是在开罗的 Tahrir，她通过其集体观点发现了这一点。