I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of three teenaged settlers and then judging the life - the young Palestinian from Jerusalem. That was… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I recovered, but I also know that I cannot afford going back yet. I see how much the kids are… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois. — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family. — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
“Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if he was… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight,… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
![“I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was so mad - are you crazy? You're not going to send that, or, you're not going to write that about me. So I would go, OK. You have five hours. Go ahead, write the column yourself.” quote by Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/sayed-kashua-37596_columns_i-used-to-give-her-my-wife-to-read-the-c_1807735.jpg)
