What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

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.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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

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.

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.