You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait… — 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
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.… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“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
