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

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

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

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.

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.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.