Sadat made us feel more secure.

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  The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

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  The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

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  The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could b

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  The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

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  There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothi

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  Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

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  We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and

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  We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big pro

• Naguib Mahfouz:

  We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage

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  Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred