There are very few great poets in the world.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
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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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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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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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