A biography for Sayed Kashuahasn’t been written yet.
“I wanted to bring likable Arabs into the average Israeli living room.”
“It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.”
“Sometimes it seems that what really worries the Israeli governments, even more than the Muslim Brotherhood, is the real Egypt.”
“Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.”
“Somehow, the rare trips to Tel Aviv give me the feeling that I have a career.”
“I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.”
“For one moment, after I left Jerusalem with my family for life in Illinois, I thought that maybe there's still a chance: maybe there are still enough people in Israel who refuse to rule and oppress another nation.”
“I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.”
“I hate it when I have to abandon my children. I politely turn down most of the invitations I get from abroad and try to fly only when it's absolutely necessary.”
“I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.”
“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?”
“A trip to Tel Aviv is a ritual. I always wear the same clothes to Tel Aviv: black pants and a blue-checked shirt that I bought especially from Ralph Lauren.”
“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.”
“Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating.”
“It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.”
“Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.”
“Everything in London is quite good, apart from the weather: it's cold and rainy there, and the winter is long.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”