was fired after publishing the poem "A Pen Bought and Sold" that assailed the corruption and privilege of the Saudi elite under then King Fahd.In 2002 he was removed as ambassador in London after publishing "You are the Martyrs", an ode to Palestinian teenager Ayat Akhras, who blew herself up two weeks earlier in a Jerusalem supermarket, killing two Israelis.
from Agence France-Presse: Ghazi al-Gosaibi, Saudi diplomat, poet, dead at 70
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