Awakening Quote by Thomas Friedman

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

— Ban Ki-moon

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking…

— Tariq Ramadan

I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the…

— Thomas Friedman

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is…

— Wadah Khanfar

“Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and…

— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle…

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum of internal…

— Michael Totten

It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on…

— Marwan al-Muasher

We believe that the Arab world has been there for centuries, and thousands of years, and it'll keep on continuing being there. All we…

— Saad Hariri

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

— Najib Razak

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

— Hisham Melhem