Arab intellectuals pay tribute to UAE poet Manie Said Al-Oteiba

Eminent arts, culture and sciences figures from Morocco and Arab states will hold in Fes this Feb.11 through 13 a conference on Manie Said Al-Oteiba, a poet from the UAE.

Participants will also pay tribute to the work of the poet, a former oil minister and presently advisor of the UAE president.

His double calling as an economist and a poet who has considerably contributed to enrich the Arab culture will be another item on the agenda.

The program will also include reading of poems, communications and criticism on "artistic foundations of Al Oteiba's poetry," "literary and intellectual components," and "between economy and literature."