Arab world Quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will…

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there is a…

— Tariq Ali

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word…

— Elliott Colla

Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

— Jacob Weisberg

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some…

— Etgar Keret

We need to engage with the Arab world.It is not a serious proposal to say that - to the people that you're asking for…

— Jeb Bush

“Friedrich Hacker says: “Many Arab intellectuals…consider the Arab mentality, which attributes to the written word and to speech a more than symbolic importance, a…

— Jean-Michel Oughourlian

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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