I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

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.

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

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.