Ministry of Culture Publishes Nabati Poetry Collection

Doha, October 19 (QNA) – The publications and translation department at the Ministry of Culture recently released a book of Nabati poetry (the oral poetry of Arabia) entitled “Stump of Longing” by Qatari poet Fada Hassan Al Hail.

The 157-page poetry collection deals with a variety of poems, including patriotic, emotional, human, and other poems that express the poet’s spirit and feeling.

The introduction to the book dealt with the vision of the Ministry of Culture based on the development, enrichment and dissemination of intellectual production, in addition to highlighting the creativity of the Qatari personality that the Ministry seeks to support through various cultural publications to contain the largest number of creators and integrate them into its programs directed to writers and other means of spreading cultural awareness.

It stated that this publication came in line with the ministry’s message, which recommends adopting Qatari and Arab creators and supporting their cultural books or poetry collections by publishing on the widest scale. Nabati is an important cultural discourse for the people of the Arab Gulf.

For her part, the poet Fida Hassan Al-Hail, known by the title “Al-Shawq Tayr or the Flying Longing”, said in a statement today: This book is the result of many years of poetry writing, explaining that what prompted her to issue this book was the exposure of the poems that she used to write and publish on social networking sites to theft, which caused her to collect her poems and issue the collection, stressing that she is in the process of issuing her second collection of poems.

Concluding, Al-Hail confirmed that the most difficult moments that the poet is exposed to, are the ones he lives during the beginning of writing an introduction to his poetry, because in these writings the poet introduces himself and embodies his feelings to the readers with his scattered letters and words, explaining that whenever a poet is honest with himself and starting from himself while writing the introduction with honesty and without pretension will be closer to reaching the hearts of others, and that enables him to reap the fruits of those letters and words, including the feelings and meanings they embody. (QNA)