Diaa Sersawi

“when the United States and Britain denied their non-propertied classes and their female citizens suffrage, or when the US operated a colonial system of slavery, genocide, and racial apartheid, no culturalist arguments were advanced to explain this grave democratic deficit among white Euro-American property-owning Protestant Christian men either (the only exception was the use by antebellum Northern white abolitionists of culturalist arguments against Southern whites as sexually excessive and libertine—on account of having learned such traits from their Black slaves and from living in a warmer climate—and confining of women, but no arguments were offered to explain the racism of Northern whites against Blacks and Native Americans, let alone Northern intolerance of Catholics and Mormons or discrimination against women).”
― Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism

“While I am sympathetic to the political project of an all-encompassing utopian inclusivity, I am less sanguine about its feasibility and more worried about
its cruelty.”
― Joseph Massad

“شكر خاص

شكرن لنظام المدارس الذي علمني كيفيت الكتابة. ولولاه لما كنت قادر علا كتابت هاذا الكتاب...”
― Abdullah Abu Snaineh, احتواء: النكبة ساغا وقصص أخرى

“كيف أسمح لنفسي
أن أكون وحيدة قبل الثلاثين ؟”
― إيمان مرسال, ممر معتم يصلح لتعلم الرقص