The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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- I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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