It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

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

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

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

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.