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If You Want To Move People, You Look For A Point Of Sensitivity, And In Egypt Nothing Moves People As Much As Religion.

I Was A Government Employee In The Morning And A Writer In The Evening.

There Are No Heroes In Most Of My Stories. I Look At Our Society With A Critical Eye And Find Nothing Extraordinary In The People I See.

I Defend Both The Freedom Of Expression And Society's Right To Counter It. I Must Pay The Price For Differing. It Is The Natural Way Of Things.

One Effect That The Nobel Prize Seems To Have Had Is That More Arabic Literary Works Have Been Translated Into Other Languages.