Moataz

“I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent the night. Gaunt men in rags and hungry-looking children had greeted me, and bade me welcome with the sonorous phrases of the desert. Later they had set a great dish before me, rice heaped round a sheep which they had slaughtered, over which my host poured liquid golden butter until it flowed down on to the sand; and when I protested, saying 'Enough! Enough!', had answered that I was a hundred times welcome. Their lavish hospitality had always made me uncomfortable, for I had known that as a result of it they would go hungry for days. Yet when I left them they had almost convinced me that I had done them a kindness by staying with them”
― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

“This constant reference to genius is another characteristic of the pseudo-scholar. He loves mentioning genius, because the sound of the word exempts him from discovering its meaning.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“ابتسار الجمهورية المصرية وإرجاء إتمام مقوِّماتها كان -ولا يزال- هو المصدر الأعمق لكل أزمات الشرعية، وسببًا في سيادة الطغيان الذي يطاردنا جيلًا وراء جيل”
― Mohamed Naeem محمد نعيم, تاريخ العصامية والجربعة: تأملات نقدية في الاجتماع السياسي الحديث

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey