Omar

“The death of a memory is agonizing. It's an extraction of a thread in the brain that happens slowly over time with nothing to numb the pain”
― Ream Shukairy, The Next New Syrian Girl

“I went to the West and saw Islam but no Muslims; I returned to the East and saw Muslims but no Islam.”
― David D. Kirkpatrick, Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

“Without the protection of the law, each of us falls back on the protection of his tribe.”
― David D. Kirkpatrick, Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

“Islam fused religion and politics, mosque and state could never be separated, and so Arabs were all but doomed to choose between secular strongmen and religious extremists.”
― David D. Kirkpatrick, Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East