A.I. Shoukry

“The British census of Palestine in 1922 recorded 84,000 Jews and 670,000 Arabs, of whom 71,000 were Christian, most of the remainder being Muslim.”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace

“during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.”
― Moisés Naím, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be

“The repeated demand for “justice,” incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

“Sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of 900 million and an annual output of only 1.8 trillion euros (less than the French GDP of 2 trillion),”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century