Emily
MikeLast week, I wrote about the Abu Dhabi TV show Million’s Poet, in which Hissa Helal (or Hilal) had made it to the final round of the program by delivering a poem against Muslim preachers “who sit in the position of power” but are “frightening” people with their fatwas, or religious edicts, and “preying like a wolf” on those seeking peace. She described hard-line clerics as “vicious in voice, barbaric, angry and blind, wearing death as a robe cinched with a belt,” in an apparent reference to suicide bombers’ explosives belts. The judges and viewers voted her into the final round.
Hissa Helal appearing on Abu Dhabi TV's The Million's Poet show (from Emirates Business 247)
I had been looking forward to seeing how she did on the final show that was scheduled to be broadcast today. But I just saw that the final program has been postponed until next week.
Filed under: Burqa and Other Veils, International Tagged: | Burqa and Other Veils, Hissa Helal, Hissal, Million's Poet, Poetry
