Arab World Quotes

68 Arab World quotes by 52 unique authors

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will… — Alice Walker
I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support, not just flows… — Larry Diamond
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. — William Eldridge Odom
Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me. — Dominique de Villepin
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether… — Zaha Hadid
The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab — Hisham Melhem
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies… — Elliott Abrams
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call… — Anthony Shadid
I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders… — Henry A. Kissinger
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world..… — Walid Jumblatt
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… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
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… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider… — Naguib Mahfouz
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence… — P.J. O'Rourke
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel,… — Barack Obama
I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me. — Queen Rania of Jordan
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban… — Salman Rushdie
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the… — Nawal El Saadawi
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive. — James Surowiecki
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. — Paul Wolfowitz
The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. — Ethan Zuckerman
Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that. — Jehane Noujaim
The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate,… — Mohamed ElBaradei
What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization. — Mohamed ElBaradei

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