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

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.

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

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.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.