Ancient egypt Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“Egypt, the country that boasts the first evidence of FGM some four thousand years ago, today offers the highest incidence of the practice. Egypt…

— Sue Lloyd Roberts

“The early and relatively sophisticated Egyptians understood that their civilization would be threatened if they bred with the Negroes to their south, so pharaohs…

— Kyle Bristow

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know…

— Waris Dirie

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

— Jack Keane

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped…

— Fernand Braudel

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and…

— Shereen El Feki

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle…

— Ridley Scott

“Egypt nevertheless remained socially liberal until the 1970s, when Nasser’s successor, Anwar Al-Sadat, brought the rank-and-file of the Muslim Brotherhood back from exile (they…

— John R. Bradley

Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This…

— Michael Tsarion

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa…

— Richard Leakey

“Timbuktu, Mali. In 1492, Askia Muhammed came to power and decreed that Jews should convert to Islam or leave; Judaism became illegal in Mali,…

— Dom Pedro V

“Luxor has long had a reputation as the Sin City of Egypt. Archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University, presently working in the local Temple of…

— John R. Bradley