"The intellectual is an individual with a vocation for the critical examination of society, for the exposure of injustice and oppression, for the assertion of universal values."

"Zionism is a form of imperialism."

"The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences."

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

"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires."