I Read A Poem Every Night, As

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 Don't Feel Guilty About Expressing Myself In French; Nor Do I Feel That I Am Continuing The Work Of The Colonizers.

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

At 21, I Discovered Repression And Injustice. The Army Would Shoot Students With Real Bullets.

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.