The great author says in that fun book:
"I cannot count the number of times I wrote about Ghada Al-Samman, who was a journalist colleague, and I do not remember that I saw her, and if I had received small letters from her at that time, but she died me and we- we Egyptians- were dazzled by the Syrians who taste the poetry and when the Najat sang a poem (I think) We liked these words, and we used t...