Abd Allāh Sālih al-Wašmī : poet from the heart of the desert

‘Abd Allāh Sālih al-Wašmī is a contemporary Saudi poet and writer. He completed his master’s degree at the Faculty of Literary Criticism and, subsequently, in Riyadh, he obtained a Ph.D. in this field and in the field of Rhetoric. He received the first prize in the Prince Faisal Ibn Fahd Poetry Contest for his poetry collection Šifāh al-fitna (“The lips of dissent”) and other literary achievements. His books contain poems on various themes, for instance: motherland, travel, poetry and the role of the poet. The literary oeuvre of ‘Abd Allāh Wašmī is diverse and constitutes only a very small part of his literary and organisational activity. It is a mixture of inspiration, outstanding personality, hard work and poetry.