QUOTE OF THE DAY

You need the arts—literature, music, film—as a universal language that allows people to see beyond the walls that separate us. To stop thinking of each other as different religions, or different cultures, or different ethnicities, or nationalities, and start thinking of each other as human beings. As people with the same aspirations, and the same dreams, the same conflicts and the same issues. It’s only through that recognition of same-ness that you really do change people’s minds.... 

- ed. Reza Aslan, Tablet & Pen: 

Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East 

(Words Without Borders).