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- 1 2 Paine, Patty; Lodge, Jeff; Touati, Samia, eds. (2011). Gathering the tide : an anthology of contemporary Arabian Gulf poetry (1st ed.). Reading, UK: Ithaca Press. p. 16. ISBN 9780863723759.
