In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.

In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.

You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.