Algebra Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals.…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private…

— T. E. Lawrence

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is…

— T. E. Lawrence

Too many have rushed in to explain the Arab world to itself.

— Mona Eltahawy

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

— Yasmine Hamdan

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what…

— Ahad Ha'am

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the…

— James Lileks

..of the arab..

— Anonymous

Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

— Bret Stephens

For so long, Arab culture has been misconceived by the western mindset as exotic, or more recently, as dangerous, so spaces like Mathaf are…

— Munira Mirza

The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call…

— Yasmine Hamdan