History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

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.