Thuraya AlArrayed

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.

Thuraya AlArrayed, 2010

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