'Studying in the US was the dream of my life.There I sat with friends, three or four hours before my flight to New York, in the early morning hours of 29 January, listening to Dvorak's New World symphony. Rushdi told me Dvorak had composed it aboard a ship carrying him to the new world. Dvorak obviously composed the symphony feeling the same obsession with the American dream that I was feeling. I was moved, and the symphony reduced me to tears'