You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity. Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
I’ll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people’s worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning. Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
I think everybody’s had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation. Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it. Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I’m not qualified to do anything. That’s the problem. Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that. Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken. Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, ‘How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?’ Jehane Noujaim Read Quote
