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

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

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

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.