Tahar Ben Jelloun

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy…

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had…

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl…

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to…

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out…

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know…

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private…

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People…

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people…

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy…

For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life…

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words…

Emigration is no longer a solution it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every…

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and…

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each…