Colonialism Quote by Tariq Ali

“In the wake of World War I, however, the British and French took out their imperial pens and carved up what remained of the…

— Thomas L. Friedman

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

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

— Ban Ki-moon

During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and…

— Saddam Hussein

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

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“The British army’s occupation of Arab territories ended four centuries of Ottoman rule over them. An entirely new political map emerged as six new…

— Martin Bunton

The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today's…

— Yasser Arafat

“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 driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

— Fouad Ajami

“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military,…

— Amin Maalouf

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse…

— George H. W. Bush

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were…

— Thomas Friedman