History Quote by Tarek Osman

“Unlike political Islamism, Arab nationalism has no major following on the Egyptian streets. Unlike liberal capitalism, it lacks the resources and the might of…

— Tarek Osman

“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

“vital historical fact: that Gamal Abdel Nasser signifies the only truly Egyptian developmental project in the country's history since the fall of the pharaonic…

— Tarek Osman

“Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves,…

— Christopher Hitchens

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in…

— T. E. Lawrence

“The Islamic movement in Egypt, from the late 1970s, managed to occupy the political space in the country that had been the domain of…

— Tarek Osman

“The Levantine political idea, which grew naturally among the communities of the eastern Mediterranean, was an original way of dealing with diverse tribal, village,…

— Thomas L. Friedman

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

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

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“In the 1980s and 1990s, however, thousands of Egyptians were forced conscripts and paid fighters constituting the bulk of Iraq's 200,000 reservoir in its…

— Tarek Osman

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with…

— Hisham Melhem

“All these complexities are lost on many commentators, often the same ones who would single out the Arabs for being Arabs; now there is…

— Jean-Pierre Filiu