Multiple identities
Each contemporary person is, dare I say, a jumble of identities (take me for instance: I am Palestinian, Arab, culturally Muslim, and, having lived most of my adult life in Britain, western and British. What a mess, you might say!). Much of the trouble in the world today stems from failure to reconcile such multiple identities...
...In many cases, this failure is in turn prompted by a misguided essentialism that requires each person to define herself or himself along one essential axis to the exclusion of, and in enmity with, all others.
- Source : Speech at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Doha, Qatar
- Topics : Belonging , Diversity , Identity , Reconciliation
