was sadly recognised last month when a Bahraini woman was sentenced to a year in prison for reading a poem which included the direct plea to the king, "We are the people who will kill humiliation and assassinate misery. Don't you hear their cries? Don't you hear their screams?"
It's ripples are still being felt throughout the Arab World as Palestinian poet Tamim al-Barghouti argued that in Tunisia the use of poetry had "widened people's imagination, changed their perception, increased their self-confidence and showed them how fragile their tyrants are".
from Slugger O'Toole: How poetry fuelled the Arab Uprising
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