"Although I was raised in Canada and the……" — Shereen El Feki
"Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria."
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16 Quotes by Shereen El Feki
Shereen El Feki has 16 quotes on this site.
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The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live…
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Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?
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HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.
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If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.
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The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against…
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Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
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Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which…
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4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young…
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Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
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Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat…
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Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are…
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Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we…
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More Alexandria Quotes
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At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library…
— Nils Kjaer
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While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea],…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is…
— Jan Morris
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A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an…
— David Ben-Gurion
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The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking…
— Brewster Kahle
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria
— Philo
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We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of…
— Ismail Serageldin
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We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there…
— Eusebius
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When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge…
— Steve Berry
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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to…
— Alexander Kluge
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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
— Marcus Garvey
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