The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey Quotes

“Only the man sitting beside me in the aisle seat, a bearded religious Kurd, remained still with his head slumped over his chest. The young man had earlier told me with great pride and in the few words of English he could muster that the three people he loved the most in the world— even more than his parents— were Jesus Christ, Sayyid Qutb and Sheikh Said. All his role models, I noted, were political troublemakers who were executed by the authorities they challenged.⁠”
― John Zada, The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir