It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.