When We Were Arabs Quotes

“The struggle between France and Britain played out in Oscar’s French classrooms in Egypt. The British dominion over Egyptian government and the French dominion over Egyptian society continued even as Oscar sat in those Egyptian cafés, eating his bassboussa, not thinking very many decolonial thoughts.”
― Massoud Hayoun, When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

“The struggle between France and
Britain played out in Oscar’s French classrooms in Egypt. The British domin-
ion over Egyptian government and the French dominion over Egyptian society
continued even as Oscar sat in those Egyptian cafés, eating his bassboussa, not
thinking very many decolonial thoughts.”
― Massoud Hayoun, When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

“The British dominion over Egyptian governments the French dominion over Egyptian society continued evesn as Oscar sat in those Egyptian cafes, eating his basboussa and not thinking very many decolonial thoughts.”
― Massoud Hayoun, When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History