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

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

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.