“I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a time, we do not even want it to pass. We hold on to grief, fearing that its lifting will be the… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“Put football instead of cricket and she could have been me. She could have been Arwa, or Deena or any of the girls I… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“ I fancy he is attempting to purge himself of — all manner of things. I beg him to take heart, for our Lord surely watches over him as he watches over us all and God judges the actions of men but surely too He judges them by their hearts and their minds, else how can one act be held… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her,… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day and asks if I think her new tablecloth is pretty. We are living in difficult times and it is… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share
“The encompassing silence and the ease(or difference) of my companions have left my soul free to contemplate, to drink in the wonder of this… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“Every day she waits for night-time. She goes to bed at half past eight because that is the earliest time she can imagine going… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
