Long ago Quote by Alaa Al Aswany

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their country to…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“I lived through beautiful times, Busayna. It was a different age. Cairo was like Europe. It was clean and smart and the people were…

— Alaa Al Aswany

If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

— Alaa Al Aswany

“If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere else.” The words slipped out from Zaki Bey, but he…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Sheikh Bilal had taken him aside the day before the wedding and spoken to him of marriage and his wife’s rights in the Law,…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“...oh that short hair, a la garcon that evokes unfamiliar, boyish kinds of sex.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

— Alaa Al Aswany

“The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany