Mari Al-Qusayfi

Mary Al-Qusaifi is a Lebanese writer and poet

I dare to raise my voice because I don’t just represent myself but all my readers. Audacity, like freedom, requires maturity and knowledge, and it is a double-edged sword, as some confuse it with rudeness, and there is a difference. Boldness lies in putting forward the idea, but rudeness uses some unusual words to shock the reader, which I avode in my writings because shock causes aversion and is counterproductive.

Many are writers who write about liberation and sex, but few of them call for love. The problem of Arab societies is not in their sexual deprivation but in their ignorance of love, and this ignorance is the source of our failures. Neither man learns love without harm, nor has the woman learned to live her love without immunizing herself from his potential harm. Love is lost today with regret between truth and imagination, between reality and virtual, but it exists even if we do not encounter it. Love makes us more beautiful and gives us the motivation to face life's difficulties. It may hurt and hurt us, but even this pain is a source of revelation and creativity.

We are all scared for Lebanon, which we know and love, especially with the recent escalation of migration. But despite everything, I do not imagine the world without Lebanon, and I trust the salvation of this country that gave me the character I am today, with all its revolution, love, challenge to pain and love of nature.

We are all scared for of Lebanon, which we know and love, especially with the recent escalation of migration. But despite everything, I do not imagine the world without Lebanon, and I trust the salvation of this country that gave me the character I am today, with all its revolution, love, challenge to pain and love of nature.

December 15, 2020; Interview with Monte Carlo