6 Quotes by Ahmed Saadawi

It's a temporary measure. We'll leave home till things calm down in the capital," he said. He didn't foresee the possibility that never coming back would become a very real option.

She didn't want to see her house disappear before her eyes but wanted to remember it as it had always been, tidy, clean and smelling of the people who had lived in it and passed through it.

What can I say, Mr President? Do your job properly, and I won't tell stories about you.

There were serious things happening, and Hadi was merely a conduit, like a simple father or mother who produces a son who is a prophet, a savior, or an evil leader. They didn't exactly create the storm that followed. They were just the channel for something that was more powerful and significant than themselves.

Because I'm made up of body parts of people from diverse backgrounds - ethnicities, tribes, races and social classes - I represent the impossible mix that never was achieved in the past. I'm the first true Iraqi citizen, he (the Whatsitsname) thinks.

Each of us has a measure of criminality.