At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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.