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

"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 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."

"The United States has been a major player in the Middle East for a long time, and its policies have often been detrimental to the people of the region."

"Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between 'the Orient' and (most of the time) 'the Occident.'"