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One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

I wanted to reach back to other times I might have lived in, the traces of which are scattered to places I previously thought imaginary.

Every man has both a poetic obligation and a human obligation.

It's bullshit what that bullshitter says. A story's a story, whether it's beautiful or bullshit.

I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

Then he thrust the knife into my stomach and said:
You're shaking.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

You can't understand beauty without peace of mind and you can't get close to the truth without fear.

I believe in dreams more than I believe in God. Dreams get into you and leave, then come back with new fruit, but God is just a vast desert.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

The question of humanity can be solved only by constant dread.

Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.