Arab World Quotes - Page 3

• I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.

  Hassan Blasim

  Choices, World, Margins

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.

  Hassan Blasim

  Imagination, Confusion, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant Islam, either those led by Iran, the Shiites, or - and those led by Daesh - by ISIS, the militant Sunnis.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Iran, Israel, Isis

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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 Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Perception, World, Conservative

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• What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spring, Optimism, People

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• There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the Arab world, is the religious credibility. How are you going to react to what is said about Islam? So, by touching the prophet of Islam, the reaction should be, who is going to be the guardian?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, Touching

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• 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 being shared fairly.

  Thomas Friedman

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• One of the Christian fundamentalists' goals seems to be to rebuild the Temple, which means destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which presumably means war with the Arab world - one of the goals, perhaps, in fulfilling the prophecy of Armageddon. So they strongly support Israeli power and expansionism, and help fund it and lobby for it; but they also support actions that are very harmful and objectionable to most of its population - as do Jewish fundamentalist groups, mostly rooted in the US, which, after all, is one of the most extreme religious fundamentalist societies in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Religious, War

  Source: chomsky.info

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• [Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

  Edward Said

  Islamic, Oil, Roots

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician.

  Amartya Sen

  Names, Doe, Algorithms

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.

  Alexander Siddig

  Thinking, Hands, America

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.

  Mitt Romney

  Israel, Iran, Sea

  Source: genius.com

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• The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South Asian world, Southeast Asian world, and African world.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Asian, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Thinking, Work Out

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to free themselves from the Turks. That's in the past and that doesn't necessarily shape what is going on but it's there and it's there in people's memories.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Memories, War, Fighting

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Thinking, Two, Creating

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• The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

  Graydon Carter

  Zines, Leader, Leaving

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• Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

  Yasser Arafat

  Blow, Together, World

  Time Magazine (New York), November 11, 1974.

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• This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, People, Support

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• The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

  Barack Obama

  Friendship, Israel, World

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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• If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Iraq, People

  "Bill Kristol's Guide to Falling Upward". www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

  William Kristol

  Healthy, Would Be, World

  "Bill Kristol's Guide to Falling Upward" by Eric Alterman, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people -sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Egypt, Other Cultures, Play

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Hurt, Doe, World

  "More Questions with Queen Rania". Q&A, content.time.com. May 11, 2007.

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, Iraq, People

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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