[The roadblocks, imposed by Israel in response to deadly terror attacks,] unfortunately turned the lives of Palestinians into hardship, suffering, humiliation, ... a very sensitive issue.


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deserve all of God's wrath.
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While equipment has become much cheaper and user-friendly in the last decade, the human resources to...
HAKIMA ABBAS
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept wh...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very ...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I never really learned photography.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mea...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride....
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it wil...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own fi...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that mome...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural s...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventuall...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I think violence can never be justified.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
First-time users of video cameras tend to want to use the zoom [or] pan or tilt the camera and chang...
HAKIMA ABBAS
It's important to balance the initial training between video advocacy and hands-on camera training, ...
HAKIMA ABBAS
I felt like he's not coming back to me. It's the feeling of a mother, but he was happy.
JAMEELA ABBAS
He was about to enter school. I had just finished his paperwork.
JAMEELA ABBAS
It was the other way around, the forbidden was interested in her.
ASGHAR ABBAS
she looked like something chiseled from a memory of a lost and long forgotten god.
ASGHAR ABBAS
من يكتب الشعر ليس كمن يردده! من يكتب الرواية ليس كمن يقر...
IBRAHEEM ABBAS
Şimdi ahırın sıcaklığında mutluluk duyup geviş getiren hayvanlara gıpta duymadı. Aksine, o...
ABBAS SAYAR
We say to the Israeli government that we are a peaceful nation but we want our rights.
MAHMUD ABBAS
The Palestinian people should not be punished because they chose democracy.
MAHMUD ABBAS
Any Israeli government must cooperate with us and must not ignore the Palestinian side.
MAHMUD ABBAS
At a time when the Palestinian Authority is trying to maintain calm, this murder intentionally aims ...
MAHMUD ABBAS
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes pe...
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, ...
MAHMOUD DARWISH