I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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