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Arab Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching…
- In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They…
- We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the…
- The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
- There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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