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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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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

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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 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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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: December 1st, 1944

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