"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

I am coming here it is like a dream, and I am imagining something like a historical path, like the path the merchants and the people from the Middle East took down here bringing their music and their culture, and their swords of course, to come and bring their culture to this land."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Long-time former Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid praised Mr.Obama for coming to Egypt and for trying to develop stronger ties with the Arab world: "I very much welcome this visit and consider that it's a very important move by Mr.Obama, and that in coming and visiting, to know more about our area and about Egypt, is something very,very successful.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

I played Tennis tournaments all over the place and I met new people and make connections and stuff and something that Tennis helped me with is coming to the United States, as you might already know that it is expensive especially for an international student to go to college here in the United States and with the scholarship that I get through Tennis it helps me a lot, so Tennis has opened up many doors for me for opportunities."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14