We Here In Egypt Are Fed Up

Man ... Put Himself In A Tight Corner When He Decided That Woman Was Innately Passive.

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.

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.

Language, Journalism, Food, Sex. All Is Politics. Even Innocent Love Stories Are Politics. ... There Is No Such Thing As Neutrality.

There Is Not A Revolution That Succeeded In A Few Months. It Takes Years, Even Decades, To Fulfill Its Goals. I Am Very Hopeful Because I Trust The Revolution And Feel Nobody Can Really Conquer A Nation That Has Decided To Be United And To Fight, And We Decided To Fight. The Revolution Is There, Inside The Egyptians By The Millions.