Mohammed bin Rashid witness the closing ceremony of the Dubai International Festival of Poetry
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March : witnessed by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, the closing ceremony of the Dubai International Festival 2009, which was drawn through the curtain on the launch of the Dubai Award for poetry three categories, and the launch of the Association of Poets the world will work to strengthen the links between the poets of the world, and represent an important reservoir for the Dubai International Festival of Poetry in future sessions.
The closing ceremony was attended by the world famous Nigerian poet, Nobel laureate in literature, Wole Soyinka, the poet and knight South African Breitin Breytenbach, poets, writers and participants in the festival, and a number of ministers and officials, and mobilizing a large audience.
In his speech to mark the closing of the festival, said the poet and writer Wole Soyinka, “The hair I mean, for me, freedom of the various alien, as it is a vision of internal poet, the poet and the child as well, as whenever he approached the poet from childhood as his hair was more obvious,” he said his pride and gratitude for standing in front of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, His Highness was not only a poet but is descended from an ancient strain of the hair where the hair flowing in the distribution of ancestral praising his book contains poems on public commemoration.
Soyinka called for in his work to increase the level of representation of women in Poetesses future sessions of the Festival, Dubai International was to find a balance between the poets and Poetesses in the festival, adding that there were many poets who are most able to express the insight of the community and issues, as well as pointing out that some do not have Poetesses the ability to express themselves in poetry.
Soyinka concluded his speech by pointing out that will be remembered when he returns to his country of Nigeria to Dubai, a cultural center filled with cultural activities, especially the hair, which is love and appreciation as a catalyst for the advancement of humanity.
For his part, Jamal began Hoirb Ben Chairman of the Organizing Committee of Dubai International Festival of Poetry 2009, his house was full of my father, saying:
If it were not for the hair during the Dorri
Ela Bgap Where bear Generosities
He said: “We have lived together in the last few days of unforgettable moments, Halguena together on a thin transparent wings that we have come together to the thresholds of the city of great creativity, a city where security and safety, equality between people of different features and qualities, the kinds of attacks against melting and the hatred and persecution, He pointed out that there is impossible to talk about the city but the city of poetry, which embraced the festival Bdioufh in the past few days. “


Leave a Reply