أيوه خبيبي أخارب، وليه لأ! أخارب وولَّعتوا نار في الدنيا دي كُلُّه! واحدة مجرم هاجمة علي بيتي وبالعافية والخناق عايزة تقعد فيه، أنا إعملتوا إيه! أحُطّ لسان جوَّه بُقّ وأقعد على كرسي واتفرجتوا عليه..!
Yes, habibi, I fight, and why not! I fight and set the whole world on fire! A criminal attacks my house and wants to sit in it by force and by the throat, and what do I do? Put my tongue in my mouth, sit on a chair and watch him?
From the novel Port Said 68 · Chapter 16 · character: Uncle Tudri (Greek-born waiter, member of the popular resistance), in his broken Arabic
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.