There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and Israel are pouring a lot of money into Egypt. Why? To divide the country by religion.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular.

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.