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 am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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.