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

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

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

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

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

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.