Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.