Egypt was one of the earliest among the Islamic states to recover her ancient, unforgotten personality. - Taha Hussein

Most of the book is an anthropological exploration of human evolution, culminating in a chapter where the author argues that the development of culture (which he defines as a set of evolving environmental, intellectual, existential, social, and psychological characteristics) must run through state planning

Saudi Arabia is a country where foreigners have not had the right to build schools and where the people lack the means to educate their children properly.

It would be a waste of time and effort to set forth in detail the ties binding Egypt to the ancient Greco-Aegean civilization.