If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

We should know that the American administration is very much involved with the Egyptian army. And when you talk about the Egyptian army, we don't only talk about, you know, political power, we talk about economic power.

We have to be the media when media is silent

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

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.