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
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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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?
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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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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.
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A shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?
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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?
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The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ?
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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.
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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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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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Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn’t doing anything about it.
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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.
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it .
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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.
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