Jawaria Saeed

“... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wondering when the mutation in Semitic blood occurred, as though God parted the Red Sea and said: "Okay, you rude ones, keep wandering toward the Promised Land. The rest of you can stay here and rot in the desert, saying 'welcome, most welcome' and drowning each other in tea until the end of time.”
― Tony Horwitz, Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. ”
― George W. Bush