"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."

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Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

Ahdaf Soueif

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