“In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish n...” — Andre Aciman Quote

“In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.”

“I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.”

“Take away our things, and something in us dies.”

“Of all the places I've visited in my life, Egypt has been the most fascinating. I've explored almost the whole country: Cairo and the Pyramids, Alexandria, the temples of Luxor and Karnak, the Valleys of the Kings and the Queens and the Nobles.”

“No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, people don't want handouts. They want purpose.”

“The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.”