Raja Alem > Quotes

“Sidi, I ache inside. I yearn to fly away, to feel free in the light, in the dark. I don't ever want to come back.”
― Raja alem

“One of the things I believe is that as long as Raja and I are translating, her people and mine may have something to do besides going to war for embarrassing reasons.”
― Raja Alem, My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca

“Arabia, like Ireland, is mostly a country in a movie.”
― Raja Alem, My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca