Middle Easterners Quotes

“All my life I thought about the Middle East, wrote about it, wondered about it, lived in it, visited it, worried about it, loved it. We are blessed and doomed at the same time.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

“Years before, a girl knocked,
wanted to see the Arab.
I said we didn't have one.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East