"The Palestinian narrative has been systematically excluded from Western discourse."

"The intellectual's main role is to question, to challenge, to provoke."

"Islam has been politicized and turned into a code word by anti-Muslim elements in the West."

"The Middle East is a place where history is constantly being rewritten, where the past is always present, where the future is always uncertain."

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