Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

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

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

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.