Sayed Kashua
Quotes by Sayed Kashua
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Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.
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Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?
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When there's a revolution in Egypt, you can't really get depressed about not knowing what happens after you die. When there are millions out on the streets, that's not the time to start panicking about contracting swine flu.
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They're completely American. When I served my son falafel in a pita the other day, he said, 'Daddy, this taco is very good.'
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'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.
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There's a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel's institutionalized support for Mubarak's tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut.
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Americans are connected to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and Israel because, generally speaking, Jewish Americans were always there, and many American Jewish people connect their nationality to the Israeli one.
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