“Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.”

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate.

On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere else.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read:

I am according to my slave’s expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

One doesn’t need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt.

Everything that happened to you is a page that’s been turned and is done with.

Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel’s milk!

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it’s very hard to get used to because they’re not very graceful.