Born Quote by Penelope Lively

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

— Shakira

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.

— Julius Streicher

“One time her father told her Shakespeare was really an Arab. 'Just look at his name: It's an Anglicization of Sheikh Zubayr,' he said…

— Mohja Kahf

I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job…

— Fawad Khan

Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of…

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

“Nasser's ‘Arabism’ was thus almost unprecedented in Egypt's long history. Nasser did not even invent Arab nationalism as a political identity. The easternists led…

— Tarek Osman

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

— Elbert Hubbard

Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

— Reem Acra

I studied business in the U.S. and later worked in Dubai.

— Dulquer Salmaan

“Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino…

— Walter Isaacson

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

— Nat Hentoff