I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

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.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

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.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

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