Communication Quote by Etgar Keret

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

— John Abizaid

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

— Sami Zayn

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I am grateful.…

— Jamal Khashoggi

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

— Mena Massoud

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get…

— Elliott Colla

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word…

— Elliott Colla

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't…

— Hassan Blasim

I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

— Laura Poitras

You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously…

— Hassan Blasim

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to…

— Jonathan Krohn

I'm of Arab background.

— Helen Thomas