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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.

I Don't Feel Guilty About Expressing Myself In French; Nor Do I Feel That I Am Continuing The Work Of The Colonizers.

I Have Written About The Dispossessed, Immigrants, The Condition Of Women Who Do Not Enjoy The Same Legal Rights As Men, The Palestinians Who Are Deprived Of Their Land And Condemned To Exile.

What Have We Achieved Since The End Of The Second World War? We Have Allowed Petty, Bourgeois Regimes In Which Everything Is Average, Mediocre.

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.