Arab Quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun Download Open image “There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arab Between Gulf Intellectuals
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 Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In general, the Arab world is an artistic hub that has such a variety, whether it be music, film, poetry. — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would when read… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that… — Tahar ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab… — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The majority of Arab people would side with Russia and China, not with the West. And they'd throw their 'elites' groomed in and by… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
The twin causes Bin Laden invokes are Islam and Arab self-determination, and armies rise to serve him. No need to convert or dogmatize. Believers… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
The majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the world. Could… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I have been to Burj-Al-Arab. And I visit Dubai quite often, I really like the place. — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
