Brother Quote by Leon Uris

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab…

— A. B. Yehoshua

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

— Kola Boof

“Learn all you can.... Get to know their families, clans and tribes, friends and enemies, wells, hills and roads. Do all this by listening…

— T.E. Lawrence

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

— Mos Def

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

— Ramy Youssef

“In ninth-century Mesopotamia, Muslim exclusivist al-Jahiz denounced the Christians not just for their worldly success, but for their immersion in Arabic culture, even to…

— Philip Jenkins

The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo.

— Lawrence Wright

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

— Ahmed Ben Bella

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

— Davis Bunn

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

— Dominique de Villepin

I was raised as a Muslim.

— Black Thought

I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques,…

— Shahin Najafi