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There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is s...

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The Map of Love

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the ...

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So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - o...

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The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afte...

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And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - se...

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Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share ...

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Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mothe...

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I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a tim...

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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip...

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I Think of You: Stories

You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -...

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In the Eye of the Sun

She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of co...

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In the Eye of the Sun

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as grea...

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In the Eye of the Sun

Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And yo...

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I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying "This, too, shall pass," For a tim...

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The Map of Love

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Ahdaf Soueif

Novelist

Born: 1950-03-23

Died: N/A

Ahdaf Soueif (March 23, 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.More