Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.