Middle east Quote by Brian Whitaker

“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military,…

— Amin Maalouf

They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

“As we have seen in the data, resentment against the West comes from what Muslims perceive as the West's hatred and denigration of Islam;…

— John L. Esposito

“From the eighth or ninth centuries, Muslim Arabs have been politically dominant in the Islamic world and have grown accustomed to that position; the…

— Benny Morris

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this…

— Ahdaf Soueif

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half century. We…

— Graham E. Fuller

"We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs"

— Judah Leon Magnes

“Today we are apt to think of the Middle East, however defined, as something of a geographical unit. During the first half of the…

— David H. Finnie

The majority of Arab people would side with Russia and China, not with the West. And they'd throw their 'elites' groomed in and by…

— Andre Vltchek

“Some families ran their own little version of the Middle East.”

— Tom Robbins