170 Quotes About Middle-east

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).

The braid must never walk before the moustache."Bedouin proverb:

Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.

It’s like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs.

I got a call froma cynical young American journalist...You know the sort. He's lived in the Middle East for a little over five minutes so assumes he knows us natives well. I sip at a skinny mocha frappe while he fires off big important questions about 'the political landscape' and 'Islamic thought'. I stare at him blankly.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

Failure is not falling to the ground; it is remaining there once you have fallen and the greatest failure is when you decide not to stand up again.

Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism.