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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. "

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

" There are very few great poets in the 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. "

" I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. "

" To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. "

" 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. "

" I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. "

" I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. "

" People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. "

" I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. "

" The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. "

" In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. "

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

" An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. "

" I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. "

" At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. "

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

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