Dina Abdalla

“I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.”
― Edward W. Said

“اللهم امنحني السكينة لأتقبل الأشياء التي لا أستطيع تغييرها، والشجاعة لتغيير الأشياء التي أستطيع تغييرها والحكمة لمعرفة الفرق بينهما.”
― عصام يوسف

“نعم ، يضنيني الحنين . ولكن ليس إلى الوطن وحده . أحن لزمن، لزمن مضى ولن أعيشه من جديد ، أبداً. أشتاق لعاشق كان لي، ولن يكون لي من جديد ...أبداً.”
― أهداف سويف, زينة الحياة

“Man, in the traditional sense of the term corresponding to insān in Arabic or homo in Greek and not solely the male, is seen in Islam not as a sinful being to whom the message of Heaven is sent to heal the wound of the original sin, but as a being who still carries his primordial nature (al-fitrah) within himself, although he has forgotten that nature now buried deep under layers of negligence.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity