War Quote by Louis Farshee

It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem;…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is…

— Ziad Doueiri

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the…

— Robert Fisk

I discovered myself in the back-and-forth and in the hyphenated Arab-American way, and one of the things that I discovered was that I really…

— Cherien Dabis

I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943.…

— Ariel Sharon

My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

— Amal Clooney

I think we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community.

— Newt Gingrich

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I always consider myself Syrian. I just happen to be born in Canada.

— Sami Zayn

Hezbollah is in Syria and Iraq and Yemen, so people should not focus on Hezbollah that it's a Lebanese entity only, but it's something…

— Saad Hariri

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this beautiful pluralism…

— Burhan Ghalioun