170 Quotes About Middle-east
- Author Richard House
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This man threatened the volunteer then returned twenty minutes later to beat him up. At a charity bonfire. In Wilford. It’s not the Middle East,” she said, “it’s Wilford, Nottingham. I don’t want to be among these people. They complain about a charity bonfire, and right on their doorstep there are children as young as eleven selling drugs along the river.
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- Author Aysha Taryam
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People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.
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- Author Raj Nellooli
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This is a story, not history. So the characters and incidents are not real. It is a story about different types of rulers who rule, protect, patronize, intimidate, terrorize, or kill their subjects and others. We call them presidents, sultans, ministers, and intelligence agencies. And many people end up as pawns to further their interests.
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- Author Lidia Yuknavitch
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And the Middle East, well, I think we can all see what we’ve made there. What a hand we’ve had in the making of our own demise. How masterful. And the world will continue to be melted by a sun we’ve crossed terribly with our progress.
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- Author Lynsey Addario
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The Americans set up impromptu checkpoints along the roads and erected stop signs in English - a language and script that not all Iraqis understood. Cars that failed to stop before the checkpoint were fired upon. I witnessed two entire families killed at the same checkpoint within twenty minutes of each other.
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- Author Madeleine L'Engle
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Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.
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- Author Manil Suri
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Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.
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- Author André Aciman
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When every Jew and every Arab will have killed each other, there'll still be one Arab and one Jew left and they'll continue drinking cinquante-quatres. I just hope there are more like us," he said. "Do you think there are?" Then, not waiting for an answer, he added, "Some friendship. The Arab and the Jew.
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- Author Anonymous Bedouin
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Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.
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