Novel 21 is 21 years of my life that I spent around the world, starting from 1984 until 2020, so I chose a story for each year that is useful to society.
What I chose was based on a combination of personal taste and conviction - which sought to be objective as much as possible - that these examples are worthy of introducing the wide reader to Adwan’s poetic personality. What also requires clarification is that the selection of poems over others was subject to a specific technical factor: that is, the replacement of long poems in favor of medium or short ones, in order to make room for the largest possible number of texts expressing the experience, and in a way that is proportionate to the proposed size of the selections.
Hopefully, these selections will succeed in recalling a lofty poetic stature, represented by “the free son of life,” “the one who exalts himself upon condescension,” bending “with the discipline of a soldier before a spike,” looking “sad and angry, at the perforated shoes of the poor,” biased “to her path filled with the dust of honor.” "; As Mahmoud Darwish expressed in his eulogy for Adwan.
In this book, we will try to address the knowledge society through three main spaces: the Arab, the Gulf, and the Emirati, relying on data and numbers indicating the development of these spaces towards the knowledge society, without claiming comprehensive knowledge of all its aspects, as this matter requires extensive and more specialized studies. However, we seek to confirm an important issue, which is that the shift towards a knowledge society is no longer an intellectual luxury, but rather an urgent need that requires more plans, programmes, institutions, competencies and skills.
In our endeavor, we also show the position of the United Arab Emirates in its pursuit of a knowledge society, through many indicators, which confirm the great effort made by the political leadership towards developing various structures, in order to provide the potential for transformation towards a knowledge society, which, in our opinion, reflects the strategic vision. The state faces the necessities dictated by the processes of economic transformation into a knowledge economy.
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