"I now find myself looking at every sentence,……" — Ahdaf Soueif
"I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?"
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12 Quotes by Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif has 12 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that…
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Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her…
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And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her…
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It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone…
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She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course…
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I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you…
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it…
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But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you…
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And…
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not…
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab…
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they…
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I…
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
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I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it…
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
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