It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
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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.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
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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.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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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.
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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.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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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.
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