We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.