Domestic violence Quote by Mona Eltahawy

I would quite like to see stories that are not necessarily to do with the violence, because I think there was quite a lot…

— Ian McElhinney

We used to have a genre called Muslim social drama which nobody in the world has. Writers from North India and Bengal came and…

— Vivek Agnihotri

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

— Federica Mogherini

“The earliest evidence that has been found of complex societies comes from Mesopotamia – modern-day Iraq and Syria – in around 3500 BC.”

— Christopher Lascelles

Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington,…

— Eboo Patel

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

— Ray Stevenson

There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a whole, Baghdad…

— Annia Ciezadlo

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of…

— Lupe Fiasco

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

— Rupi Kaur

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

— Helen Dunmore

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was…

— Troy Vincent

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver