The Parts In Which I Elaborated On

Memory Is Never Complete. There Are Always Parts Of It That Time Has Amputated. Writing Is A Way Of Retrieving Them, Of Bringing The Missing Parts Back To It, Of Making It More Holistic.

Prostitution Means Sexual Intercourse Between A Man And A Woman Aimed At Satisfying The Man's Sexual And The Woman's Economic Needs. It Is Obvious That Sexual Needs, Even In A Male Dominated System, Are Not As Urgent And Important As Economic Needs Which, If Not Satisfied, Lead To Disease And Death. Yet Society Considers The Woman's Economic Need As Less Vital Than The Man's Sexual One.

There Is Not A Revolution That Succe Saudi Arabia Paid $7 Billion For The Salafists To Come, And The United States And Israel Are Pouring A Lot Of Money Into Egypt. Why? To Divide The Country By Religion.

Here The Oppression Of Women Is Very Subtle. If We Take Female Circumcision, The Excision Of The Clitoris, It Is Done Physically In Egypt. But Here It Is Done Psychologically And By Education. So Even If Women Have The Clitoris, The Clitoris Was Banned; It Was Removed By Freudian Theory And By The Mainstream Culture.

The Medical Profession [in Egypt] Is Also Very Commercial. Health Is Not Given To The Poor. You Know, If You Have Money, You Have Medical Care; If You Do Not, Then You Are In Trouble. I Was Not Ready At All To Build My Economic Security On The Diseases Of People, On Suffering, Especially Of Women And Children. So, In A Way, I Rebelled Against It.