Marwan al-Muasher Quotes


It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.


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Kirkpatrick, David D. "Arab Leaders Agree on Joint Military Force to Confront Regional Threats." The New York Times, 29 Mar. 2015, p. A1.

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Marwan al-Muasher (Arabic: مروان المعشر‎) (born 1956) is a Jordanian diplomat and politician who was Jordan's foreign minister from 2002 to 2004 and its deputy prime minister during 2004 and 2005. He currently serves as vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on the Middle East. He was Jordan's first ambassador to Israel and former ambassador to the United States.