"The Middle East is a place where history is constantly being rewritten, where the past is always present, where the future is always uncertain."

"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

"The intellectual is someone who is always on the side of the oppressed, never on the side of the oppressor."

"The media is the modern court where reputations are made and unmade."

"Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between 'the Orient' and (most of the time) 'the Occident.'"