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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.

— Ahdaf Soueif In the Eye of the Sun (1992)

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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)

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

Aisha (1983)

“Sometimes I think, because we use the same words, we assume we mean the same thing”

The Map of Love (1999)

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