274 Quotes About Arab

Bagaimanapun, selama ada minyak di Timur Tengah kita takkan pernah damai.

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Every Jew in Palestine is a bit of an Arab, and no Arab in Israel can deny that he's a little Jewish.

You are insistent, calling again. You want me to tell you the story of Scheherazade, who rocks the sad king on her knees as she sings him tales from wonderland. Yet you know that I am not Scheherazade, and that one of the world's greatest wonders is that I am unable to enter my country or pass through the region around it.

The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under the heart when he lays his head on his mother's lap; it threatens to swallow him whole when he leaves his own country, even though he marries and travels and talks to friends twenty-four hours a day. That is the way Sirine suspects that Arabs feel everything - larger than life, feelings walking in the sky.

While recognising the possibilities offered by the reformulation of classical Arab culture in the light of contemporary theoritical trends, while applauding the many efforts being made in this direction, and while feeling as much pride in this culture as any other Arab intellectual, it seems to m important nevertheless to retain the problem of “cultural retardation” at the centre of our thinking

But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.

You gave me books and articles. You keep telling me not to forget I'm Arab. But it's not just the white people reminding me who I am, Baba. Arabs remind me I'm not one of them too. This world may never let me forget I am Arab, but it will also keep me from belonging as one of them.

Mond el mit olvasol, es elmondom, hogy mit gondolsz.