Culture
Long before the world knew music spectacles like Coachella, and more recently, Saudi Arabia’s MDL Beast Festival, the Arabian Peninsula was renowned for its own grand cultural stage: the ‘poetry market,’ a gathering that celebrated poets who wielded their tongues for beauty. If an entire market devoted solely to poets and poetry is not proof enough of how deeply poetry runs in the Arab soul, then nothing else could be. Poetry has long been ingrained into the very DNA…
