“I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.” WorldIdeasWealthUnitedMiddleIntelligentTownsLibraryOilSouthernArabiaFourteenPublic LibraryEmirates Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and we ask ourselves whether poetry and politics even belong together, because they're often so poorly married that we think of them as oil and water.” ThinkingTogetherAsksWaterMissingMarriedBreathsOilOil And Water Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
