Wanda Cicchetti

“I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?”
― Ahdaf Soueif, Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground

“It's good that I should have to come some way to meet you.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

“Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

“- it was only then that I understood how longing for a place can take you over so that you can do nothing except return, as I did, return and pick at the city, scraping together bits of the place you once knew. But what do you do if you can never return?”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love