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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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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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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

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

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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

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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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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: December 1st, 1944

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