First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very, very lacking - there is no sexology. I never read the word clitoris in any medical book when I was educated.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.