 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. |
| There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. |
| My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. |
| I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. |
| Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. |
