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

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

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.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.