Arab Quotes · Page 2

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

— Sami Zayn

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

— Yasmine Hamdan

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

— Ethan Zuckerman

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

— Richard Dawkins

Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

— Ali Mazrui

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

— Molly Ivins

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

— Shereen El Feki

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

— Jack Schwartz

“It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try…

— Zeina Kassem

Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. We are not…

— Kofi Annan

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the…

— Lexi Alexander

Many Muslims consider the United States hostile to Islam and to Arab interests. In fact, the United States saved tens of thousands…

— Antony Blinken

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab…

— Noam Chomsky

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen…

— Amr Moussa

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who…

— Tina Brown

“One time her father told her Shakespeare was really an Arab. 'Just look at his name: It's an Anglicization of Sheikh Zubayr,'…

— Mohja Kahf

4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young people to…

— Shereen El Feki

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was…

— Jim Al-Khalili

Arab Israelis don't have the same voice as Jewish Israelis. If you look at the numbers, we are not equal. There are…

— Nuseir Yassin

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against…

— Mordechai Vanunu

The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went…

— Wadah Khanfar

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It…

— Wadah Khanfar

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor…

— Ahad Ha'am

Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab…

— Nizar Qabbani

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

— Moshe Sharett

Trump has created an atmosphere wherein my sons are questioning their place and identity as Arab Americans and Muslims.

— Rashida Tlaib

The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.

— Richard Engel

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

— Elliott Abrams

Too many have rushed in to explain the Arab world to itself.

— Mona Eltahawy

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of…

— Zaha Hadid

I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.

— David Ben-Gurion

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

“if an arab girl caves into the forest of her body is she the tree or the ax or is she the…

— Jess Rizkallah

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

— Tahar Rahim

It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore…

— Michael Korda

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

— Noam Chomsky

I have been to Burj-Al-Arab. And I visit Dubai quite often, I really like the place.

— Neha Dhupia

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

— Jalal Talabani

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

— Jehane Noujaim