Mai Badawy
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“that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“Just remember, Pui, good luck comes at a price. Bad luck is free.”
― I Must Betray You
― I Must Betray You
“He found, quite to his surprise, that he was happy. Not merely happy in Demelza's happiness but in himself. He couldn't think why. The condition just existed within him.”
― Ross Poldark
― Ross Poldark
“No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that same respect and recognition isn’t shown towards everyone of our people in this country–it doesn’t exist for me.”
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“How can we fix a future in which algorithms replace not only vast swatches of the manual labor force, but also skilled workers like lawyers, doctors, and engineers?”
― How to Fix the Future
― How to Fix the Future
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Biography, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Political, activism, africa, anti-racist, autobiography, biography-memoir, cairo, category-romance, contemporary-romance, egypt, feminist-theory, feminist-studies, feminism, god, historical, historical-romance, history-and-politics, indigenous-history, islam, irish-civil-war, literature, love, love-inspired, love-inspired-historical, love-story, muslimah, muslims, mysticism, native-americans, native-american-history, northern-africa, novels, psychiatry, romantic, social-justice, turkish, turkish-literature, women-and-gender-studies, and womens-rights
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