“...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.”
― The Year of Fog
― The Year of Fog
“عيب الإنسان الأكبر هو إنكاره عيوبه, ودفاعه المستميت عنها.”
― ولدت هناك .. ولدت هنا
― ولدت هناك .. ولدت هنا
“أتلمَّس أحوالي منذ وُلدتُ إلى اليوم
وفي يأسي أتذكر..
أن هناك حياةً بعد الموتِ
هناك حياة بعد الموت
ولا مشكلة لدي
لكني اسأل: يا الله.. أهناك حياة قبل الموت؟”
―
وفي يأسي أتذكر..
أن هناك حياةً بعد الموتِ
هناك حياة بعد الموت
ولا مشكلة لدي
لكني اسأل: يا الله.. أهناك حياة قبل الموت؟”
―
“It is easy to blur the truth with a simple linguistic trick: start your story from "Secondly." Yes, this is what Rabin did. He simply neglected to speak of what happened first. Start your story with "Secondly," and the world will be turned upside-down. Start your story with "Secondly," and the arrows of the Red Indians are the original criminals and the guns of the white men are entirely the victims. It is enough to start with "Secondly," for the anger of the black man against the white to be barbarous. Start with "Secondly," and Gandhi becomes responsible for the tragedies of the British.”
― I Saw Ramallah
― I Saw Ramallah
“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.”
― Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
― Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
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