This was written for Emirates Business 24/7 and can be found here: http://www.business24-7.ae/opinion/comment/a-festival-of-literature-and-co-operation-2010-03-11-1.67301 For many years, residents of and visitors to Dubai city have associated it with trade, commerce and the ceaseless flow of goods. Any mention of culture results in complicit nodding and a mention of Dubai’s venerable Bastakiya area, safe from uninitiated prying [...]
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Creativity, creation and the Dubai Lit Fest
Posted: 10/03/2010 in Life & Style, Other inanities, Sociopolitical piff paffTags: #dxblit, Bahaa Taher, Dubai Literature Festival, Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature, Imtiaz Dharker, Lit Fest, Yann Martel
This was written for the Huffington Post and can be found at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hisham-wyne/creativity-creation-and-t_b_493213.html Painters, traditionally male, have had muses, usually female for inspiration. But does an author, or a poet, have a muse in that parochial, matriarchal sense? This question was posed by Paul Blezard to authors Yann Martel and Bahaa Taher and poet Imtiaz [...]
