Hissa hilal biography of martin
He asserted that Hilal's poetry “is not good, by the way, from a literary point of view.” Yes, the praise of Hilal has been a little brainless.
Hissa Hilal is a published Saudi poet, former journalist, and mother of four who gained global recognition in March with her..
Saudi female poet whose verse inflames and inspires
Hissa Hilal: strong words, softly spoken
From beneath a veil, a Saudi woman is setting her conservative Arab homeland alight.
Hissa Hilal is already challenging convention by being at once a journalist and a wife and mother of four children.
But it is her blistering poetry - recited while dressed in a traditional head-to-toe abaya cloak and broadcast on traditional Arabic television - that is really defiant.
Using a traditional verse form native to the Arab Peninsula's nomadic tribes, she writes critically about the country's hard-line Muslim clerics, calling them: "vicious in voice, barbaric, angry and blind".
Anger in the spotlight
Condemning the violence that she says lies beneath their religious messages, her poems speak of some of the clerics "wearing death as a robe cinched with a belt" - an apparent reference to suicide bombers' explosives belt.
Her poems rail against what she