I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.
May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.