Omar

“Once you've been trained to trust your thoughts over your feelings, you can be made to believe that bad situations and exploitative people are necessary in your life and even good for you.”
― Lindsay C. Gibson, Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World

“Identity was not a singular branch—it was an entire tree, with vines and leaves and branches jutting out in all directions, some blossoming and thriving while others shriveled and died.”
― Aamna Qureshi

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.”
― Hazem Kandil, Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt

“I went to the West and saw Islam but no Muslims; I returned to the East and saw Muslims but no Islam.”
― David D. Kirkpatrick, Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East