All Quotes

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries. ”

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job. ”

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors. ”

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization. ”

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them. ”

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. ”

Men think a woman should not have an opinion. ”

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. ”

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper. ”

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. ”