I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

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.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

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

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.