Deals Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

“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

“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

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it…

— Youssou N'Dour

In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political…

— Tariq Ramadan

The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the…

— Tariq Ramadan

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

— Hisham Melhem

You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

“Growing up in the Middle East, I came to find out that Arab children are taught hatred of the Jews from their mother’s milk.…

— Brigitte Gabriel

Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

— Bret Stephens

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

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

— Fouad Ajami

“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