Dhiyaa Al-Musawi Interview
« I do not believe in the gallows of Ideology. Our problem in the Arab World is that we have many gallows of ideology, and of accusations of social betrayal, on which we try to hang an intellectual, a thinker or a poet everyday, just like in the case of Naguib Mahfouz and others. We, I’m sad to say, are against creativity and civilization, and against any language that seeks common ground in society. »
« We must have the courage to get rid of the “backward†cholestorol of ideology,accumulating in the arteries of Arab awareness and the Arab mind. We suffer from backwardness. This is masochism- the kind psychologists talk about- or self-flagellation. This is the truth. We have not developed even to the point of admitting defeat.We (have to) admit our cultural defeat. In the past, we had a civilization in Andalusia and in many other places, but today, we are regressing- we export violence, we terrorize whole countries, we threaten national security, and many other things. »