Nothing is more flattering to an artist than the illusion that he is a secret revolutionary. 

It happened like this. A week after the Six-Day War, Sam walked to the eastern bank of the Jordan River. He was working as a counselor that summer near Karameh, at a day camp for boys.

“Palestinianism was for Said a condition of chronic exile, exile as agony but also as ethical position.”

“(I am always seeking to learn from lovers)”

Lawrence was blond and blue-eyed, and yet, by his own account, successfully “passed” as an Arab.