Arab world Quotes

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

— Yair Lapid

We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

— William Kristol

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

— Jehane Noujaim

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

— Mona Eltahawy

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Shereen El Feki

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

— Anonymous

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

— Anonymous

Instead of trying to bring freedom to the Arab world, couldn't we just concentrate on trying to fend off the European Union…

— Peter Hitchens

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

— Noam Chomsky

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture…

— Salman Rushdie

Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

— Fouad Ajami

I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force…

— George W. Bush

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest…

— Walid Jumblatt

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…

— Mitt Romney

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as…

— Graydon Carter

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and…

— Alice Walker

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with…

— Zaha Hadid

All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in…

— Yitzhak Rabin

So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology.…

— Annia Ciezadlo

I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support,…

— Larry Diamond

At festivals there's always one spectator from Egypt who says, 'I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.'…

— Eran Kolirin

I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in…

— Barack Obama

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -…

— Hisham Melhem

There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum…

— Michael Totten

Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger…

— Robert Fisk

I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead... Education itself…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South…

— Alexander Siddig

Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies…

— Elliott Abrams

Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab…

— Cherien Dabis

“In California, after weeks of meeting transported Americans from practically every state in the Union, I announced to Kareem that I liked…

— Jean Sasson

“The Muslim world in general, the Arab world in particular was confirmed in its grievances, particularly that the West was prepared to…

— John Keegan

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

— Dominique de Villepin

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

— Wadah Khanfar

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

— Ehud Barak

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

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

— Ethan Zuckerman

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun