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.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

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

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

Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.