I Don't Feel Guilty About Expressing Myself

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 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.

To Lead A Country, You Must Periodically Hold A National Consultation In Which People Representing Different Programmes Can Make A Bid For Power.

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.

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.