I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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 was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.