Mona Eltahawy Quotes

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

King of the Arabs

Nasser is an Arab Mussolini.

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

Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

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 Arab League is pinning its hopes on having a unified Arab position.

The Arab League has made opposition to Israel the only common goal of its otherwise quarrelsome membership.

We believe that the Arab world has been there for centuries, and thousands of years, and it'll keep on continuing being there. All we have to do is work together.

When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.

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.

The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011. Journalists, academics, and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

We all share some commonalities with the states we come from and where we come from on the political spectrum. There's a lot of work to be done to make sure we continue to have strong advocacy for these values that we find in the heartland, in red and rural states.

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

I think people are just puzzled by why people where I'm from make the political choices sometimes that they do.

It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand for democracy and human-rights reform, started.

There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.