S. Abbas Shobeiri is a poet, a painter, a stateless person, and a student of the healing arts who came to the United States in search of political and civil freedoms. His poetry and art cross many traditions and cultures as limitless as the places he has visited during his journey. "Lost Like Me" describes the mental and physical suffering of refugees on the run. His mystical poems such as "God's Anonymous Visit" express the clash between the Divine intentions for man and man's interpretation of those Divine intentions. Some vivid poems such as "Oh God, I Repent," often have themes of death...
S. Abbas Shobeiri is a poet, a painter, a stateless person, and a student of the healing arts who came to the United States in search of political and...