170 Quotes About Middle-east

Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and young push to reclaim space for cultural expression and freedom of expression.

But not all Gaza residents were committed to the war. A reporter asked one of the Arabs what he most wanted. He was a taxi driver, father of ten. All he wanted was 'to eat and to work.' What did he think of Nasser? 'Nasser is good, Israel is good, America is good, Britain is good, Canada is good, India is good, Anything is good.

One can speak best through stories. Things only come alive in this way. This is because such things are the children of our experiences. They are conceived during big events in our lives, born when we begin to reflect on those incidents and then grow with us as our appreciation for the memories that brought them into being also lives and thrives.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.They taught me I had a language in heavenand another language on earth.

…the darkness brought him some hope, and he wondered if Samir was looking at the same stars, guiding them to their own versions of freedom — the night, cloaking them at the same time, bringing them close together. Jacob got the chills thinking about it, as the headlights briefly captured majestic silhouettes of camel caravans in the distance, their humps like small mountains blending into the dunes.

Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said.I don't want to return now to the fortress of my father's house.Take me to your vineyard.Let me meet your mother.Perfume me with basil water.Arrange me on silver dishes, comb me, imprison me in your name,let love kill me.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

People who say literature doesn't matter, there are three books from the Middle East that are still shaping the world many centuries later.

Israel is beautiful. Israel is vibrant. But Israel isn't clean -- far from it. Israel is sin, redemption, passion and blood. ... At its very foundation, Israel is the story of God's interaction with mankind.