Thuraya AlArrayed

thumb|Thuraya AlArrayed, 2010 Thuraya AlArrayed (born 1948) is a Saudi writer and poet, who writes in the Arabic language. She received a bachelor's degree from the College of Beirut, in 1966, an MBA from American University of Beirut in 1969 and PhD from the University of North Carolina, United States General in 1975. Quotes Desert Dreams I came into your world Wrapped in my inherited desert shawls All my ancestors nomadic uncontrollable souls An immense mysterious heritage Do you comprehend what that implies? When you ask me to swap a desert infinite horizon With a one way trip to a door and walls? in: Patty Paine, ‎Jeff Lodge, ‎Samia Touati (2011). Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry. p. 252 The Doors ;the Game of Times Every day When the enchanted times child shares my solitude She lifts me with fatal calmness Out of the orbit of the four seasons Through the worn out doors Searching for the fifth Season Where dreams should have poured. in: Patty Paine, ‎Jeff Lodge, ‎Samia Touati (2011). Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry. p. 255 The Stillborn I want to burst , to shout Speak up with all my force With all my might Open my swollen heart Cry out Until the word is heard Until the word pierces the sky in: Patty Paine, ‎Jeff Lodge, ‎Samia Touati (2011). Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry. p. 261 External links Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:Poets from Saudi Arabia Category:Women authors from Saudi Arabia