You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're…

- Ahdaf Soueif

She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not li…

- Ahdaf Soueif

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

- Ahdaf Soueif

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

- Ahdaf Soueif

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white f…

- Ahdaf Soueif

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. Yo…

- Ahdaf Soueif

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a …

- Ahdaf Soueif

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: …

- Ahdaf Soueif

But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

- Ahdaf Soueif