Author: Leila Aboulela

Quotes

My father married out of the family. I also married outside the family.

My father married out of the family. I also married outside the family.

- Leila Aboulela

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

- Leila Aboulela

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

- Leila Aboulela

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

- Leila Aboulela

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

- Leila Aboulela

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

- Leila Aboulela

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