I Read A Poem Every Night, As

For Me, Poetry Is A Situation - A State Of Being, A Way Of Facing Life And Facing History.

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.

It Is Through Accepting Other People In Our Own Countries That We Shall Come To Respect Our Neighbours And Be Respected In Our Turn.

We Must Stop Posing As Victims Of The West And Behaving Negatively Towards The West. We Must Participate With The West On An Equal Footing In The Reconstruction Of The World.

In The 70s I Was In Exile; Every Time I Went Back I Wondered If They'd Take My Passport Away.