At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream, ... I would never be a schoolboy again.

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.