Arabic Quote by Shereen El Feki

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

— Sam Esmail

“How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of…

— Enid Shomer

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any…

— Aga Khan III

I was raised as a Muslim.

— Black Thought

I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested…

— Salman Rushdie

I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything around us,…

— Lupe Fiasco

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help…

— Shereen El Feki

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

— Kola Boof

As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely…

— Hamza Yusuf

I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East and Africa.…

— Malcolm Nance

Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and…

— Andre Aciman

“Egypt is now a deeply conservative country that, over the past two decades, has so pervasively succumbed to the Wahhabi customs promoted by the…

— John R. Bradley