There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

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.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

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.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.