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Danh ngôn của Hisham Matar (Sứ mệnh: 3)

Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety.
All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.
Living in hope is a really terrible thing.
Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.
Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.
My best hope is that Libya turns into a peaceful, sensible country that has all the things my father and lots of others have been calling for: independence of the courts and press, a protected and democratic constitution, with different parties involved in a healthy and open debate.