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

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

— Dominique de Villepin

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

— Anonymous

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

— Hisham Melhem

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

— Ehud Barak

I may be born in the U.K., but nobody takes away from the fact that I'm an Arab, and I'm proud to…

— Naseem Hamed

We need to engage with the Arab world.It is not a serious proposal to say that - to the people that you're…

— Jeb Bush

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

— Amr Moussa

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

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people…

— Ahmet Davutoglu

“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

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

— Tina Brown

The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a…

— Elliott Abrams

“I could only liken it to the strength of a wheat stalk, which when struck by a storm, bends to the ground,…

— Zeina Kassem

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

— Nizar Qabbani

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

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

“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

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

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their…

— T. E. Lawrence

We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters

— Yitzhak Rabin

You can’t teach a monkey to speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic,

— Moshe Feiglin

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

— Wadah Khanfar

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

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

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

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

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

— David Ben-Gurion

“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

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

— Mona Eltahawy

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

— Elliott Abrams

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