Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.

My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.