You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.