“لماذا لا يغيرون شكل طغيانهم حتى يصبح تاريخنا أكثر تنوعاً على الأقل، ربما نمنح أحفادنا كتب تاريخ غير مملة Why don’t they vary the type of their tyranny; to make our history more diverse at least, and then maybe we will leave our grandchildren history books that are not boring”
—Mohammed Hasan Alwan (born 1979) is a Saudi Arabian short story writer and novelist.He was born in Riyadh and studied Computer Information Systems at King Saud University, obtaining a bachelors degree in 2002. He also obtained an MBA from the University of Portland, Oregon in 2008.
أحب رؤية القمر في بدايته عندما يكون هلال لأنني أحب كل شيء له مستقبل
“I love looking at the moon when it’s still a crescent because I love everything that has a future”
— Om Kalthoum (1889-1975) - Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress of the 1930s to the 1970s. She is known as كوكب الشرق Kawkab al-Sharq (“Star of the East”) in Arabic. More than three decades after her death, she is still widely regarded as the greatest Arabic female singer in history.
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“All beautiful things end! All sad things end!”
“كل الأشياء الجميلة تنتهي! كل الأشياء الحزينة تنتهي!”
-Abdel Wahab El-Messiri, an Egyptian author & general coordinator of the opposition organization Kefaya.
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