Domain Quote by Hassan Blasim

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

— Sami Zayn

I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I…

— eL Seed

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some…

— Etgar Keret

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

— Laura Poitras

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 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

“One may guess that the commissioning of this work [a logical textbook and translation into Arabic of Aristotle and Porphyry] must have come from…

— Dimitri Gutas

“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic…

— Jim Al-Khalili

I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first…

— Craig Thompson

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

— John Abizaid