Everybody Has To Die, Firdaus. I Will

To Me, 'beauty' Means To Be Natural, Creative, Honest - To Say The Truth.

I Have Triumphed Over Both Life And Death Because I No Longer Desire To Live, Nor Do I Any Longer Fear To Die.

I Never Stopped Writing. I Started Writing When I Was Twelve Years Of Age. And I Was Writing All The Time. But Nothing Was Translated Until Thirty Years After I Started Writing, When The Hidden Face Of Eve Was Translated In 1980.

The Salafists Are Trying To Abort The Revolution And Make It Religious, Though The Revolution Started Secular. There Was Not A Single Islamic Slogan. It Was Secular Men And Women, And In Fact, They Were Unified. Now They Want To Divide The Revolution, And Religion Is A Very Strong Weapon.

When I Am In Egypt, I Am Phoned Because I Am Listed In The Medical Directory Under "mental Health And Psychiatry." And Of Course, I See Very Few People, Because I Give Much More Time To Writing. So I Cannot Say That I Really Stopped Medicine, But I Practice Medicine - Or Psychiatry - In A Very Different Way. In An Artistic Way!