Emigration Is No Longer A Solution; It's

Religion Has To Stay In The Heart, Not In Politics. It Is Private.

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.

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.

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.

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.