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" 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. "

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" New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

People

Today

Freedom

" I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. "

" For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

History

Situation

" My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. "

" It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. "

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

" The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. "

" What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. "

" There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. "

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

" 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. "

" I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. "

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

" Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. "

" 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. "

" I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. "

" Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. "

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