والشارع الذي أعرفه قل عليه: يا رحمن يا رحيم، وكأن شياطينَ لا بشرًا استباحوه!
And the street I knew—God have mercy on it—looked as if devils, not people, had overrun it.
From the novel Menorahs and Minarets · Chapter 1
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.