I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

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.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

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

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.