“In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.” WorldHas BeensBlackWhiteCasesEuropeWesternIsraelArticlesBlack And WhiteAgain And AgainEssaysPalestineArab WorldWestern Movie Author:Amos Oz
“Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to free themselves from the Turks. That's in the past and that doesn't necessarily shape what is going on but it's there and it's there in people's memories.” PeopleWorldWarPastFightingInterestMemoriesShapesLiberationTurkeysArab World Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.” ThinkingWorldTryingCountryStatesProblemTogetherDifficultCan DoUnitedDealsCommonSituationLeaderUnited StatesPolicyExampleTheoryEasierIndiaIslamWork OutBranchesHistoricCoalitionsRivalryBangladeshArab World Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant Islam, either those led by Iran, the Shiites, or - and those led by Daesh - by ISIS, the militant Sunnis.” WorldI CanForceEnemyPositionChangedBattleIslamIsraelIranAlliesIndispensableIsisMilitantArab World Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.” WorldLongInterestMiddleSecurityEssentialsAreasRootsAffairTerrorismOilEastIslamicMiddle EastInvolvementArab WorldDialectics Author:Edward Said
“Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.” WorldCoursesSeaArmsIsraelIranAlliesSyriaRoutesLebanonArab WorldHezbollah Author:Mitt Romney
“I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldHardHandsAmericaCultureSituationLeaderTvsPersonalitySouthWesternWork OutStaringAlsCultMicrophonesWestern WorldCharismaticSouth AmericaArab WorldHands UpPresenter Author:Alexander Siddig
“The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician.” WorldMayDoeTodayRememberNamesCenturyMathematicsImprovementAlsMathematicianAlgorithmsArab WorldPrinceton Author:Amartya Sen
“One of the Christian fundamentalists' goals seems to be to rebuild the Temple, which means destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which presumably means war with the Arab world - one of the goals, perhaps, in fulfilling the prophecy of Armageddon. So they strongly support Israeli power and expansionism, and help fund it and lobby for it; but they also support actions that are very harmful and objectionable to most of its population - as do Jewish fundamentalist groups, mostly rooted in the US, which, after all, is one of the most extreme religious fundamentalist societies in the world.” WorldMeanWarHelpingSeemsActionChristianGoalReligiousSupportGroupsPopulationExtremesTemplesFundAlsDestroyingRootedFulfillingProphecyIsraeliFundamentalistMosquesArmageddonArab World Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were being shared fairly.” PeopleThinkingWorldProblemBigsHappensOpportunityRevolutionElitesBig ProblemsArab World Author:Thomas Friedman
“The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South Asian world, Southeast Asian world, and African world.” WorldWholeSouthIslamicAsianArab WorldPersia Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the Arab world, is the religious credibility. How are you going to react to what is said about Islam? So, by touching the prophet of Islam, the reaction should be, who is going to be the guardian?” WorldShouldSaidCountryTodayChallengesReligiousMajorityIslamReactionsProphetTouchingGuardianCredibilityWorld TodayArab WorldMuslim World Author:Tariq Ramadan
“What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsLooksStillsHappensPoliticalCan DoRevolutionIntellectualSpringHappeningsOptimismStartingAwakeningAnalysisSentimentsDictatorCautiousStarting PointPolitical PowerAdvocatingIrreversibleArab WorldArab Spring Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.” WorldPerceptionConservativeProgressiveReactionariesArab WorldIslamists Author:Tariq Ramadan
“So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do. And that's why I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect.” PeopleWorldWritingHumansRealPoliticalCan DoHuman BeingsMiddleEssentialsEastReal LifeIdeologySpheresMiddle EastArab World Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.” PeopleWorldBelieveLiteratureI BelieveDoorsDeserveInternationalRecognitionNobelArab World Author:Naguib Mahfouz
“There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.” MenWorldWayKindYoungCertainInfluenceBehaviorSignificantBehaveYoung ManArab World Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.” WorldWellsHas BeensHelpingFriendshipAchieveInvolvedStandingIsraelAdministrationPalestinianConsistentlyArab World Author:Barack Obama
“I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.” WorldDoeHurtAmazedHurt MeMisconceptionArab WorldMuslim Women Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.” WorldCultureCenturyUrbanArab WorldGreat ChangeNomadic Author:Salman Rushdie
“The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.” WorldWorstHusbandAbsolutesCodeEgyptPolygamyAbsolute PowerArab World Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.” WorldHas BeensDestructiveArab WorldAutocracy Author:James Surowiecki
“The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.” WorldHugeWeightAbsenceSaddamArab World Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantDemocracyMiddleExampleEastBrotherhoodMiddle EastArab WorldMuslim Brotherhood Author:Abdallah II
“The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.” WorldWritingHandsPensArab WorldNew Future Author:Abdallah II
“I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.” ThinkingWorldMayCountryMomentsProblemCertainBloodTearsNervousSweatInitialsDefiningInstabilityArab WorldSweat And TearsDefining MomentsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Abdallah II
“Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.” IfsWorldWayYearsTwoShowsThreeLeftPartyDemocracyFourCoupleBrotherhoodAnother WayMonarchyJordanArab WorldMuslim Brotherhood Author:Abdallah II
“Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.” WorldYearsCountryAbleAnswersFiguresConnectionsIsraelOccasionsSatIsraeliSynergyArab World Author:Abdallah II
“The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.” WorldLittlesPresidentWealthLeaderDangerLessonsLateLeavingToo LateMinoritiesOverwhelmingDemonstrationEgyptianArab WorldMubarakZines Author:Graydon Carter
“Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.” PeopleWorldSeaStupidIranAlliesSyriaRoutesStupid PeopleArab World Author:Mitt Romney
“The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners” WorldFourPolicyPartnersForeign PolicyOrientationArab WorldMorocco Author:Saad-Eddine El Othmani
“Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the 'knowledge worker' and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world's people to dream, to imagine, and to create.” PeopleWorldYearsHumansDreamCommunityKnowledgePowerFocusImagineDevelopmentConceptsCapacityWorkersFocusedEmpoweringEmployeeStaffExpertiseArab WorldHuman CapacityKnowledge Workers Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.” MenWorldStillsCountryCompanyGonePromiseStatementsAgreementTrustedEgyptTornQuarrelsCanalsColonelsArab World Author:Anthony Eden
“Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.” MenWorldWantSoulBodyHealthyMen And WomenOur SocietyPrisonerArab World Author:Nizar Qabbani
“Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and their supporters in Mexico, Argentina, Eastern Europe, and the Arab world. Instead, those in jackboots and armbands worldwide quietly stowed all their emblems away as organized fascism died on the vine once the roots were torn out in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo. So too will the terrorists, once their sanctuaries and capital shrivel up - as is happening as we speak.” WorldSpeakEnemyHappeningsEuropeRootsDiedTerroristGermanyOrganizedJapanWeedRomeFascismMexicoDiverseSupporterTornEasternBerlinSanctuaryFascistsVinesArgentinaTokyoEmblemsEastern EuropeArab World Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.” WorldShouldMotivationLandIraqDrivingEndeavorArab World Author:Fouad Ajami
“I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'” ThinkingWorldWayMadePastMistakeDemocracyDespiteCredibilityArab World Author:John Fund
“It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.” PeopleWorldThreeProcessMillionsSawsWeekStrangeWallIraqFallenVotingCynicalInvasionBerlinEgyptianArab WorldBerlin WallProcess Of Change Author:Walid Jumblatt
“Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.” PeopleThinkingWorldLiteratureCitizensIllusionArmyBelieverSovietRegimesIndicationTrue BelieverArab WorldUssr Author:Natan Sharansky
“It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.” WorldProcessInterestClearIsraelDespiteModerationSuspendedArab World Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.” PeopleWorldHumansAmericaHuman BeingsIsraelArchitectureAccessMainstreamPalestinianStanding OutWheelchairsArab World Author:John Hockenberry
“We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and (2) to not let our enthusiasm for rebellion lead to cheering on the cruise missiles from US warships. These two sirens should worry us as we make our hesitant way alongside the rebirth of a New Left in the Arab world.” WorldWayShouldTwoLeftWorryFrontsDefenseEnthusiasmRegionsRebellionCheerRegimesImperialismRebirthMissilesCruiseVigilantSirensArab WorldHesitantWarships Author:Vijay Prashad
“Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.” IfsWorldImportantMoralTechnologyAuthorityWeaponsLosingArab WorldMoral Authority Author:Robert Reich
“Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.” WorldYearsWellsPresidentTalkingYears AgoAskingFiftyPresident BushGreat DayArab World Author:Lakhdar Brahimi
“Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.” WorldPoliticalUnderstandingInterestAbilityEconomicChinaMutualEngagementArab WorldMutual Understanding Author:Rick Larsen
“[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.” WorldWestIraqUsaArab WorldInvadingInvading Iraq Author:Richard Dawkins
“The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantNeedsFactsUseDreamCausesCommonKnownRecordsImagineAchieveEssentialsWeaponsDemocraticIraqPossessionRageNeighborNuclearTerroristNightmareWillingnessChemicalsSaddamInvasionScenariosSlaughterArab WorldAnti-american Author:Joe Lieberman
“This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.” PeopleWorldWantSupportMessagesIsraelAround The WorldIsraeliZionistArab World Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world.” WorldBelieveAmericaForceI BelieveIndiaDemocraticNeighborPartnersPeacefulModerationPakistanProsperousSteadfastBushismArab World Author:George W. Bush
“As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.” IfsThinkingMenWorldMayHas BeensDifferentTogetherLastsBlackStudyColorPromiseMessagesIllusionSlaveryTraditionalReliefTreatmentRoutineBrotherhoodBlack WomenThoroughGlueSuppressionArab WorldPurdah Author:Alice Walker