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 do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

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

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

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

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.