To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.