From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.
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Ahdaf Soueif21 quotes“From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.”
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Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif A shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?
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Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif 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 SoueifAhdaf Soueif And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he – he ignored it – ignored you. What would you feel?
Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif She had been wrong to think it wouldn’t matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted – not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she’d put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .
Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif And Egypt? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ?
Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif 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 SoueifAhdaf Soueif But things move on and by the time you’ve plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.
Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? – Where the water turns a deeper blue.
Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif 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.
Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.
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