We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

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• A. B. Yehoshua:

  I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.

• A. B. Yehoshua:

  Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

• A. B. Yehoshua:

  At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all

• A. B. Yehoshua:

  This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

• A. B. Yehoshua:

  I admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora.

• A. B. Yehoshua:

  Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.

• A. Balasubramaniam:

  In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. Y

• A. Balasubramaniam:

  I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... N

• A. Balasubramaniam:

  My work is not directly about the social or political.

• A. Balasubramaniam:

  I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own wa