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.

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

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

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

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.