“There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have… — Ahdaf Soueif Technology 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Ability 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… — 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… — 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Bitterness 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Difficult time 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Beloved 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Nature 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Doe Copy Share Image
“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Fear 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… — Ahdaf Soueif Every day Copy Share Image
“I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness” — Ahdaf Soueif Art Copy Share Image
Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted… — Ahdaf Soueif Feels Copy Share Image
“Palestinian weddings are celebrated over coffee, but when a young man is killed his mother is held up over his grave. 'Trill… — Ahdaf Soueif Common ground Copy Share Image
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too? — Ahdaf Soueif People Copy Share Image
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they… — Ahdaf Soueif Book Copy Share Image
I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as… — Ahdaf Soueif Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Fields and more fields on either side of the road.From where they are it looks as if the whole world were green.But… — Ahdaf Soueif Thousand years Copy Share Image
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress… — Ahdaf Soueif Beach Copy Share Image
So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer… — Ahdaf Soueif All things Copy Share Image
But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running… — Ahdaf Soueif Changed Copy Share Image
“We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all existing human ratios staying the same, it… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did… — Ahdaf Soueif Air Copy Share Image
