An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the…

“a station chief, admonishing him for “killing Indians just for sport,” knowing that laborers were scarce and reminding him that one should have recourse…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I loved the Four Seasons in Cairo.

— Phillip Schofield

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient…

— Italo Calvino

The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time…

— Rick Riordan

“Paris on the Nile’ or the ‘finery of Cairo’, Al-Ismailiya – a district to which Ismael gave his name – comprised large, wide avenues,…

— Tarek Osman

In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they don't have…

— Bill Ayers

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

— Augusten Burroughs

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If…

— Randall Munroe

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami…

— Dan Rather

“Mansour earned the nickname "Al-Turbiny," from the air-conditioned express trains linking Cairo with Egypt's second city Alexandria, whose roofs were the favored location for…

— John R. Bradley

Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of…

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or…

— Victor Davis Hanson

In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than…

— Charles C. Mann

My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change…

— Anwar Sadat

Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to…

— Leila Fadel