Atef Saeed

“Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day and asks if I think her new tablecloth is pretty. We are living in difficult times and it is not enough for a person to be interested in his home and his job - in his own personal life. I need my partner to be someone to whom I can turn, confident of her sympathy, believing her when she tells me I'm in the wrong, strengthened when she tells me I'm in the right. I want to love, and be loved back - but what I see is not love or companionship but a sort of transacton of convenience santioned by religion and society and I do not want it.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

“You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--”
― Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun

“واللي إنكتب بالجاف مبيتمسحش خلاص
و الدُنيا مفيهاش حرف بينكتب برصاص !”
― مصطفى إبراهيم

“أنا أحسن واحد يقنعك تحكي…

ومابيحكيش…

وأحسن واحد يقنعك تبكي…

...وما بيبكيش…

أنا أحسن واحد يقنعك تفرح….

وأحسن واحد يقنعك تجرح…

أنا أحسن واحد ميت….

يقدر يقنعك….تعيش…”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, المانيفستو