Hanan Ashrawi Quotes

Palestine, Leader
October 8, 1946

Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (Arabic: حنان داوود مخايل عشراوي‎; born October 8, 1946) is a Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research. Prior to that, she was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Birzeit University and head of its Legal Aid Committee since the mid-1970s.

Also known as Activist, Scholar

We cannot superimpose on any conflict very simple, borrowed and ready-made solutions ... The Americans constructed a simplistic paradigm for our peace process. And they expected everybody to think like Americans, to behave like Americans.

Hanan Ashrawi
Nobody wants him to resign and I don't think he will. He understands this is a question of the national interest.

Hanan Ashrawi
- Question
- National interest

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women in parliament who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

Hanan Ashrawi
We're being shelled and bombed and assassinated and killed. Our homes are being destroyed, our children traumatized. Our livelihoods, our institutions, our infrastructure totally demolished.

Hanan Ashrawi
He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension.

Hanan Ashrawi
If Abu Mazen wins, I'm afraid there will be payback time. Lots of people will expect to see him deliver different things on different fronts to different addresses.

Hanan Ashrawi
- Abu Mazen
They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves.

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- Orders
- Arafat
We are still in the middle of the competition.

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- Competition

We know what they say, they want all of Palestine including Israel and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.

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- Palestine
- Negotiations
The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.

Hanan Ashrawi
- Violence
- Occupation
It looks like we will have a bipolar reality.

Hanan Ashrawi
- Bipolar reality
These weren't pre-emptive moves. If we wanted to do that, we would have taken steps on other measures dealing with security or dissolving the parliament.

Hanan Ashrawi