Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. He was born in Jerusalem in 1955. Presently he is a visiting professor at Princeton University in the United States. Mr. Kuttab is the former director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Ramallah, Palestine and the founder of AmmanNet, the Arab world's first internet radio station. His personal web page is www.daoudkuttab.com
Amman, Jordan - My favorite proverb at these times is "if your house is made of glass, don't throw stones at your neighbors." This applies to nuclear power in Iran.
Bashir Goth is a veteran journalist, freelance writer, the first Somali blogger and editor of a leading news website. He is also a regular contributor to major Middle Eastern and African newspapers and online journals.
Somalia/UAE - By delving into the Arab literary wisdom one stumbles on the prophetic manner in which Arab and Muslim poets and philosophers through history have predicted the present situation with precision.
Miriam Leitao is a reporter and columnist for O Globo and Radio CBN in Brazil. She is also a commentator on Globo TV Network and runs her own blog, www.miriamleitao.com, hosted at Globo online at www.oglobo.com.br. She was awarded Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 2005.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - This quote comes from a Brazilian masterpiece: "The truth is not in the setting out nor in the arriving: It comes to us in the middle of the journey."
Gustavo Gorriti Is and award-winning Peruvian journalist based in Lima. He covered Peru's internal war, drug trafficking and corruption. He is the author, among other books, of The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. He was Associate Director of Panama's La Prensa, Co-Director of Peru's La Republica and is currently a columnist for Caretas, Peru's leading newsmagazine.
Lima, Peru - Proverbs come handy for the guilty moments. Latin proverbs are perfect for assuaging guilt.
Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of
The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of
The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including
Blood Brothers,
Nehru: The Making of India,
Kashmir: Behind the Vale,
Riot After Riot,
The Shade of Swords, and
India: The Siege Within.
New Delhi, India - An old Sufi saying: When you are trapped in a vicious circle, draw a larger
circle around it...
Miklós Vámos is a Hungarian novelist, screenwriter and talk show host. He is one of the most read and respected writers in his native Hungary. He has taught at Yale University on a Fulbright fellowship, served as The Nation’s East European correspondent, worked as consultant on the Oscar-winning film Mephisto, and presented Hungary’s most-watched cultural television show. Vámos has received numerous awards for his plays, screenplays, novels and short stories, including the Hungarian Merit Award for lifetime achievement. The Book of Fathers is considered his most accomplished novel and has sold 200,000 copies in Hungary.
Budapest, Hungary - A liar is much easier to catch than a lame dog....
Helena Luczywo is the Managing Editor of Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette), the first independent daily of a communist country founded in 1989 and now boasting the largest national daily readership in Poland.
Warsaw, Poland - This quote refers to Cato the elder, a great Roman, famous for his strictness and fanaticism.
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