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Sayed Kashua

Israeli Author

Born: 1975

Arabs Life Me People Sometimes You

Related authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. S. Lewis Frederick Douglass George Orwell Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Zig Ziglar

A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play. Sayed Kashua

Today Compassion Complaining Made Parents Believe Those Kids About Parent Could Student Cruel Check Days Instrument Felt Always How Making Were Lot Up Friends Quite Children Grew Them Successful Many Now Play

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant. Sayed Kashua

Hope Equality Liberty Sometimes Master Rather Built Israeli-Palestinian Discourse Left Wonder Than Any Fruitless Servant

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. Sayed Kashua

I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep. Sayed Kashua

Wife Nighttime Assumption Never She Falls Conduct Asleep Awake Activities

Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children. Sayed Kashua

Sometimes Parents Other Though Seems Abuse Children Victims Certain

How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. Sayed Kashua

Life Politics Me Racism New Life Care Distant Minister Would About Faces Knew Prime New Name Like Names Know Because How Where Anything Place Land Meaning Even Hardly Start

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. Sayed Kashua

Alone Family Listening Every Kids Minute Somehow Stereo Since Feels Like Became Am Screaming Which Vacation Two

If there was genuine desire on the Israeli side, even without a solution, it would be possible to solve a large percentage of the problems between Israelis and Palestinians by means of simple statements from the Israelis. Sayed Kashua

Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains. Sayed Kashua

Day Thanksgiving Year Closed Down Restaurants Only Except Most Stores After Holiday Midnight Chains Even Shut Here

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? Sayed Kashua

Christmas Good Sometimes Hell Thinking Christianity Tree Other Trees Neighbors Some Good Reason Mention Red Like Were Wonder Stockings Any Children After Reason Even Why Buying

I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story. Sayed Kashua

Political Father Long Trial Tell About Ideas Israelis His Years Jail Wanted Hebrew Story Who Sat Palestinian

What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national consciousness and hope will people be left with after so many years of stifling occupation and a sense of hopelessness? Sayed Kashua

Hope People Will National Sense Kind Hopelessness Morality Occupation Stifling Years Left So Many Years Form After Produce Many Palestinians Consciousness

I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way. Sayed Kashua

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family. Sayed Kashua

Family Wise Wife Clever See Always

Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates - so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer? Sayed Kashua

Too Late Will Year Spring Fall Too Late Summer Say Dates ID Institute Come Leap Mandate Convenient Holidays Regular Early

I always envied them, the owners of the cars with the white plates who can be seen around Jerusalem. I always wanted to be one of them. We call them U.N., even though U.N. are generally foreign correspondents with leased cars and yellow plates. Sayed Kashua

Car Seen White Though Generally Envied Call Around Always Foreign Yellow Owners Wanted Them Who Even Plates Jerusalem

My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought. Sayed Kashua

Thought Horrifying Know Children Who Even

Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating. Sayed Kashua

Television Since Felt Brain Being

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