In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would when read… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
“Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that… — Tahar ben Jelloun Copy Share
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
