Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

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.

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

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.

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

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