Brothers and sisters Quote by Luol Deng

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

— Tea Obreht

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

— Sam Esmail

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.

— Sam Esmail

“At that time, a grand Arabic project emanating from Cairo had credibility. That is not true today. The relative standing of Egyptians (the country,…

— Tarek Osman

I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were universities in…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

“from its beginning, Egypt was a densely settled agricultural community. Its soil was rich, and because farming necessarily ceased during the months of the…

— Norman F. Cantor

The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It…

— Hisham Melhem

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way…

— Naguib Mahfouz

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent.…

— Hisham Matar

“There was no money economy in Egypt, and all exchange of goods was carried out by barter. Each citizen paid a tax in kind…

— Norman F. Cantor

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

— Andre Aciman