Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

And the crowd often betrayed the people

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.

The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.