We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

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

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

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

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

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

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.