"The West has a long history of misrepresenting the East, of constructing it as an exotic, irrational, and inferior other."

"The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination."

"The problem with the Middle East is not a lack of democracy, but a lack of justice."

"The concept of 'identity' is often used to create divisions, to exclude, to marginalize."

"The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony."