Awakening Quote by Thomas Friedman

I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for…

— Thomas Friedman

The Arab awakening has been, up to now, a lot about freedom from dictatorial regimes - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt. But…

— Thomas Friedman

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an…

— Amr Moussa

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

— Ban Ki-moon

Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

— Najib Razak

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their…

— Roger Cohen

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

— Mona Eltahawy

“At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single…

— Alistair MacLean

Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not emulate; the…

— Ehud Barak

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

“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