I write freely. I do not restrict myself to any one style. By now I am much obliged, and Al-Bayyati wants to make yet another phone call. One question, however, remains to be answered, and a very important one at that. She is a creature of light, a mythical, realistic, idealistic, materialistic, historical, a-historical creature.
Some art critics believe that colour is the most essential aspect of paintings.
A painting, they say, is colour. I say that the poem is a woman. He was 73. The official Syrian Arab News Agency, which reported his death, gave no further details, but friends said he was taken to hospital to be treated for asthma. Al-Bayati had lived in Damascus since 1996 after he left Jordan, where he sought refuge after quitting his diplomatic post in Madrid, Spain, in protest following Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.