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.

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

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

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

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

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