[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution…

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into…

— Michael Scheuer

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you…

— Janet Fitch

The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search…

— Terence McKenna

...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that…

— Toby Lester

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative…

— Marina Warner

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how…

— Annie Besant

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it…

— Christopher Hitchens

Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda…

— Charles Krauthammer

On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be…

— Pat Condell

An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while…

— James Keller