Nouran Osama

“In my view, poetry has the capacity of
bringing us momentarily back to the oral and enveloping world.
The re-oralised word of poetry brings us back to the centre
of an interior world. The poet speaks not only ‘on the threshold of
being’, as Gaston Bachelard notes,43 but also on the threshold of
language. Equally, the task of art and architecture in general is to
reconstruct the experience of an undifferentiated interior world,
in which we are not mere spectators, but to which we inseparably
belong.”
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

“The 1970s can be characterized as a decade of search for identity. While intellectuals and professionals searched for Egypt's true identity, the majority of the built environment from then on was produced outside the confines of architecture as a profession increasingly irrelevant, and informal building activity proliferated.”
― Mohamed Elshahed, Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide

“How many kisses have we crushed to our lips in prayer—only to pick up the pieces?”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“الشباب عدو الرضا، هذا كل ما هناك”
― نجيب محفوظ, ميرامار