Jehane Noujaim Quotes

There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

Arab nationalism is not a theory but the source of all theories

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

The Arab Freedom Movement is, in the Middle East, our natural ally against England. In this connection, the raising of rebellion in Iraq is of special importance.

The Arab homeland is an indivisible political and economic unity, and all the differences existing between its sons are accidental and spurious, and will pass away with the awakening of Arab consciousness.

The Arab world is ripe for internal revolution like the USSR and China in the past decade.

King of the Arabs

The real blame (for the lack of peace in the Middle East) should be directed at us, the leaders of the Arab nation.

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

As it is, Al Jazeera is mostly funded by grants from the emir of Qatar-Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, whose family has ruled the country since the mid-1800s.

The total exports of the entire Arab world, not counting oil and gas, amount to less than Finland, one tiny European country… their economies depend entirely on oil…. Sooner or later, oil and gas either be exhausted or superseded as the modern world turns to other sources of energy. When that happens, they will have nothing left. One possibility is that they will develop other forms of economic activity. Another, more likely, is that the region will lapse into insignificance.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

The reason there IS a Turkey and there ISN'T a Kurdistan is in all of history no Kurd could ever stand by any other Kurd long enough to hold off all the hungry Arabs, Persians, Turks, Brits and other sand carnivores swimming around the Fertile Crescent.

The Baath Party was a Fascist Party. It was an Arab Fascist Party—one of many Arab Fascist Parties. There were of course Nazi style parties throughout the Middle East following Nazi allied policies and the Baath carried the flame.

It is claimed that religious unity is also a factor in the formation of nations. Whereas, we see the contrary in the Turkish nation. Turks were a great nation even before they adopted Islam. This religion did not help the Arabs, Iranians, Egyptians and others to unite with Turks to form a nation. Conversely, it weakened the Turks’ national relations; it numbed Turkish national feelings and enthusiasm. This was natural, because Mohammedanism was based on Arab nationalism above all nationalities.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

There is a feeling among the Arabs - encouraging terrorist activity is part of the broad new Arab strategy - that sooner or later, Israel will be forced to withdraw from Samaria, Judea and Gaza.

Too many have rushed in to explain the Arab world to itself.