“Even by Sisi’s standards, this is the worst crackdown on journalism ever recorded.”

“Cairo is so vast it might as well be infinite.”

“Seven times destroyed: once by conquest, once by water, once by fire, once by siege, once by plunder, once by invasion, and once by civil war. Each time rebuilt better and stronger than before, a phoenix continuously rising from the ashes.”

“I stayed awake for what felt like hours, certain that if I dropped off to sleep I would never know whatever it was my body now wanted me to know.”