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1 " Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still an arab. No one ever wants to be the arab - its too old and too tragic, too mysterious and too exasperating, and too lonely for anyone but an actual arab to put up with for very long. Essentially, its an image problem. Ask anyone, Persian, Turks, even Lebanese and Egyptians - none of them want to be the arab. They say things like, well, really we're indo-russian-asian european- chaldeans, so in the end the only one who gets to be the arab is the same little old bedouin with his goats and his sheep and his poetry about his goats and his sheep, because he doesnt know that he's the arab, and what he doesnt know wont hurt him. "
― Diana Abu-Jaber , Crescent
2 " The school remained open. I thanked Allah that the Americans operated differently. Had the Lebanese lost 241 men in one day, and had we the power and the reach, we would have American males hung from their testicles and set on fire. The frame of mind that dictates our actions quashes our ability to develop the power and reach exhibited by the Americans, I thought. "
― , Trapped in Four Square Miles
3 " You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit. "
― Rabih Alameddine , The Hakawati
4 " There's a great Lebanese restaurant a few blocks over. They have the best shawarma in the world." " What's shawarma?" " You know what a gyro is?" " No." " Same thing. "
5 " What about Danny Thomas?" Uncle Hal asks. " What happened to him?" Dead," Uncle Abdelhafiz says. " Nice Lebanese boy." " Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at your cousin Farouq, Great Uncle Ziad, Auntie Seena and Jimmy's son Jalal," Aunt Jean cuts in disapprovingly." Dead, dead, dead, and in jail. "
6 " We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura. "
