“ It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that is no longer is there. Zeina Kassem
“ Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free. Aysha Taryam
“ Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations. Husam Wafaei
“ Israelis cannot be blamed for the conflicts and civilians casualties nor do the Palestinians. We can argue endlessly about it, the only one that can be blamed for this lasting battle is the Saudis fue… M.F. Moonzajer
“ And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth. Alia Mamdouh
“ By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religio… Jim Al-Khalili
“ ...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke? Angele Ellis
“ There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourco… Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“ Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood. Susan Abulhawa
“ Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes sti… Diana Abu-Jaber
“ It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not b… Moshe Dayan
“ I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor or spat-upon: everyone beneath the vine and fig tree living in peace and unafra… Aurora Levins Morales
“ Don't be afraid of books, even the most dissident, seemingly 'immoral' ones. Culture is a sure bet in life, whether high, low, eclectic, pop, ancient or modern. And I am convinced that reading is one… Joumana Haddad
“ I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full sto… Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“ He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“ I watched life and death unfold like a dance on the side of that road. My son was born with a bloodstained face and he died with blood from the accident covering that same face. Zeina Kassem
