I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.
Iman
SchoolSpeakGoEgyptBecauseMine
The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
Fidel Castro
DeathEgyptSeptemberSetback
The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.
Andre Aciman
TrustProblemEgyptPublicPeriod
In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.
Stephen Kinzer
PowerManResultElectionEgypt
In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.
Tom Reiss
PlanEarlyEgyptFirstTopOut
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
Robert Wilson
ArtLookBackEgyptAncient
I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt.
Mona Eltahawy
PoliticsReligionBrotherhoodEgypt
Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.
Miroslav Volf
WorkPowerTogetherPeopleEgypt
Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
Mohamed ElBaradei
StartEgyptCleanStatusMustSlate
The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.
Mohammed Morsi
SituationReadyInvestmentEgypt
Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting. His temper is frightening.
Bret Stephens
MannersDonald TrumpEgyptTemper
The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.
Pete Hoekstra
GovernmentConstitutionEgyptLaws
There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.
Ridley Scott
CommunityParisEgyptBigIndustry
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.
Richard Engel
TodayPoliceBackEgyptGunsStrict
I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
James Luceno
YearEgyptAfricaThroughEthiopia
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.
Fred Saberhagen
WorkConnectionsGoWantEgyptWill
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.
Elliott Abrams
PoliticsLongNowEgyptConsensus
Hamas is really a problem for the Palestinians and for Egypt more than Israel.
Avigdor Lieberman
ProblemEgyptMoreIsraelThan
Getting permission to use a drone in Egypt was problematical.
Sarah Parcak
EgyptPermissionUseGetting
Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
Marcus Samuelsson
WorldGrowEgyptCornWheatBeen
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
Ahmed Ben Bella
EgyptMoreIndustrialBigLikeThan
Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.
Ahmed Zewail
FaithDifferencesEgyptUnitedEven
One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.
Ben Shapiro
EgyptEarnIsraelBetweenWonders
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
P. J. O'Rourke
PeopleThinkThoughtCountryEgypt
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