I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me!
The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.
I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.
In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.
As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.
At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement.