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.

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

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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.

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

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.

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.