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 through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

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

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