Arabic poetry for those who are not familiar with it is still stuck in morbid gloom of the repeated failures of the Arab societies. The massage is always almost the same; no hope,,no hope. further on, Hopelessness seem to reflect itself even in the style and and choice of words and and in an absurd tendency to shock the reader ( I presumed to entice him to do something about his world) with very strange and surrealistic expressions resulting in gross over mystification.

I do not know, how may people share with me that low opinion of the modern Arabic poetry, and I would not even like to discuss my opinion it with any one. It is been too long since I walk out of the stagnant pool. Years that took to too many places where I heard songs of every type and met poet of every color. Exile and hunger taught me to listen.

Coming back after twenty seven years of exile, I realized where thing went terribly wrong.

Some one might stop me here and say what make me so sure that I have reach the right conclusion? and how did my ideas escape academics and other poets who might be far more educated than me?

That would be the right question in the right place. Since and according to my humble opinion arabic poetry had along the ages been held captive by academics and intellectuals filtering it to suit there futile scholarly pleasures depriving the mass from a major tool of freedom. No wonder why the Moslem world had never seen a renaissance in the true sense of the word.

Universal Poetry which I boldly propose throughout all my books is a serious try to emancipate the right hemisphere of the arab mind from the oppressive grip of the left.

In my poem title "Enough" I say:

..enough to guns,

enough to using them.....

Where the word "guns" rise to mean real guns on the first level of metaphor, and religious and political oppression on the second. The third level of metaphor, transforms the word "guns" to mean the cultural tools which each one of us uses to oppress him or herself. And it is here that the experience of moving at stand still ( or living in multi levels realms of the right hemisphere) revel itself as a tool of freedom.

It very important that reader understand that moving at stand still is not an idea nor should it be taken for it literal meaning. I am a believer of one creator, and believers of prophets and saints and all other religious icons. And when i talk of religious oppression I do not mean that religion is a tool of oppression, actually, it the opposite, I am a great believer that religion is a great tool of foredoom. (refer to moving at stand still page). It is fanaticism , and narrow mind ness in all its forms that I stand firmly against.