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

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

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

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.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.