Everyone had put questions to me and I to them. They had asked me about Europe. Were the people there like us or were they different? Was life expensive or cheap? What did people do in winter?
-Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, a novel set in a Sudanese village
They also asked me, If you put camels in zoos, why not dogs and cats? Why in Amrīkā does a kilo of lamb or goat cost more than a kilo of beef or chicken? And I asked them, If Egypt is the Gift of the Nile, what is its gift to Sudan? Why do you say, The Sahara will eat you, but not, The Nile will drink you? Yes, in Kordofan each Su’āl, Question, had a Jawāb, Answer, from a Jawwāb, One Who Traverses a Foreign Country.