سمعت عمرك يا يعقوب أفندي عن ناس بتسرق دولة بحالها! مش ساعة وللا عربية وللا حتى بيت! دولة! دولة بحالها يا يعقوب أفندي بأرضها وناسها وبحرها وسماها وصيفها وشتاها!
Have you ever heard, Yaqoub Effendi, of people stealing a whole country? Not a watch, or a car, or even a house: a country! A whole country, Yaqoub Effendi, with its land and its people, its sea and its sky, its summer and its winter!
From the novel Days in the Diaspora · Chapter 25
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.