"The trouble with identity politics is that it is a prison."

"The Palestinian struggle is a struggle for justice."

"The Orient is a stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage, a drama is played out in which the West is the sole actor."

"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 intellectual is someone who is always on the side of the oppressed, never on the side of the oppressor."