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Crisis and poetry in Kuwait

When the Turkish Airlines plane landed at the Kuwait Airport early Monday morning, I was assuming that I would spend three days discussing philosophy, poetry and some politics with poets, writers, academics and prominent journalists from all throughout the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, France, the U.S., Canada and who knows where else. Neither I nor some other 300 participants in the“11th session of the Al-Babtain's Encyclopedia of Arab Poets from the 19th and 20th centuries,” organized by the Al-Babtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity, had the slightest idea or expectation of witnessing a rather rare financial crisis and a rather routine political fist fight in the Gulf state. As in most Arab
Sunday, 02.Nov.2008, 18:39 (GMT+3)

When the Turkish Airlines plane landed at the Kuwait Airport early Monday morning, I was assuming that I would spend three days discussing philosophy, poetry and some politics with poets, writers, academics and prominent journalists from all throughout the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, France, the U.S., Canada and who knows where else. Neither I nor some other 300 participants in the“11th session of the Al-Babtain's Encyclopedia of Arab Poets from the 19th and 20th centuries,” organized by the Al-Babtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity, had the slightest idea or expectation of witnessing a rather rare financial crisis and a rather routine political fist fight in the Gulf state. As in most Arab

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