Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
