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There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a man who stands lost in admiration at the gun that is raised to shoot him.

— Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love (1999)

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

The Map of Love (1999)

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: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?

It Matters (2003)

We always know how the story ends. What we don't know is what happens along the way.

The Map of Love (1999)

How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.

In the Eye of the Sun (1992)

I remember a time of happy, dappled sunlight. (first line of "Knowing")

Aisha (1983)

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