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

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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

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

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

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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

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

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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

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