I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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

In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.