“I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long ...” — Sayed Kashua Quote

“I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story.”

“Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don't?”

“I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.”

“I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.”

“It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.”

“One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.”