The Worlds of Kamal Ruhayyim عوالم كمال رُحيّم

في بادئ الأمر ظنَّ الأهالي الذين هنا أنهم شحاذون، ولما أدركوا قصدهم وأنهم مهاجرون ويودون العيش معهم، قالوا: لا مكانَ لكم عندنا، ولا حتى خرم إبرة.

At first the people here thought they were beggars, and when they understood that they were migrants wanting to live among them, they said: there is no room for you here, not even the eye of a needle.

From the novel Habashi’s Café · Chapter 14

Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.