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If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

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Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

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Alaa Al Aswany

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Born: May 26, 1957 (age 69)
Bio: Alaa Al-Aswany is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
Known for:
  1. The Yacoubian Building (2002)
  2. The Automobile Club of Egypt (2015)
  3. Chicago (2007)
  4. Friendly Fire (2004)

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