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Thank God their are more consonants than vowels. Can you imagine the tongue having to have all of those vowel movements.


Professor Maxine Dood-El Noodel

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JEREMY TAYLOR Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petula...
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NAWAL EL SAADAWI Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a fac...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
NAWAL EL SAADAWI The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat fr...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
NAWAL EL SAADAWI Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
NAWAL EL SAADAWI To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid t...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
NAWAL EL SAADAWI Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acq...
ANWAR EL-SADAT Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family l...
SHEREEN EL FEKI Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and m...
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and...
SHEREEN EL FEKI In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. The...
SHEREEN EL FEKI Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those a...
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