People die, but money never does.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.