Arabia Quote by Anthony Eden

“The hero, the historical giant, the dream, was revealed to be a mere inept leader presiding over a failing system. He trusted military commanders…

— Tarek Osman

America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a…

— Adel al-Jubeir

“Despite its disapproval of Nasser's action and the pro-Soviet direction in which he was leading Egypt, the [Eisenhower] administration saw Nasser's foreign policy as…

— John Spanier

“Nasserite project was increasingly becoming real; something akin to a ‘United Arab World’ could, at the time, be envisaged; it was impossible to dismiss…

— Tarek Osman

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did…

— Golda Meir

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

— Nicholas Sparks

We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been…

— Yitzhak Rabin

“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found…

— Daniel Gordis

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

— Nadine Labaki

“vital historical fact: that Gamal Abdel Nasser signifies the only truly Egyptian developmental project in the country's history since the fall of the pharaonic…

— Tarek Osman

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is…

— Mohamed ElBaradei