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.

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

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

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

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 not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

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