Arab world Quote by Saad-Eddine El Othmani

“Morocco looks not to its immediate neighbors but just across the Mediterranean, to Europe, as its major foreign economic lifeline. In part because of…

— Gordon Chang

Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political…

— Tariq Ramadan

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than…

— Paul Wolfowitz

A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests.

— Cynthia P. Schneider

“Saudi Arabia, we should remember (as we turn to Indonesia and southern Thailand), in addition to flooding postrevolutionary Egypt with cash and hijacking the…

— John R. Bradley

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.

— Elliott Abrams

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for a new…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very…

— Kenza Fourati

I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support, not just…

— Larry Diamond

“Believing that Egypt's future lay with the Levant, Iraq, Iran and the Arabian peninsula, the easternists sought to establish strong relationships with the rising…

— Tarek Osman

Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that…

— Pete Hoekstra

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

— Jehane Noujaim