In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

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

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

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.