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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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.Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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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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