Dina Abdalla

“كلّهم يتحدّثون عن ِالطريق ، يقولون : تجد نفسكَ على الطريق ! وهُم لا يعرفون منَ الطريق إلا لونها الأسود وأرصِفتها !”
― Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“ذكرياته أوضح في مخيلتها من ذكرياتها هي. لم يكن لها حتى ذكريات، لم يكن لها ماض، وفي لحظات الهلع، وراء باب الحمام الموصد، كانت تجزم بأن ماضيه يلتهم حاضرها.”
― أهداف سويف, زينة الحياة

“In newsreels or news-photos, the Arab is always shown in large numbers. No individuality, no personal characteristics or experiences. Most of the pictures represent mass rage and misery, or irrational (hence hopelessly eccentric) gestures. Lurking behind all of these images is the menace of jihad. Consequence: a fear that the Muslims (or Arabs) will take over the world.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism