| World Leader’s Favourite Poems is based on an original idea by Mehmet
Basci. He was born in 1979 in Pazacik, a small town in the country of
Kahraman Maras, in Turkish Anatolia. He now lives in Switzerland. He wanted
to unite, through the love of poetry, some of the worlds most powerful
leaders in a dream of peace. The book has been five years in the making. Mehmet does not speak English, and so used translation websites on the internet to compile letters to the various prime-ministers and presidents. Amazingly, some did reply, and the book is able to boast contributions from the likes of Tony Blair, Ariel Sharon, Abdul Kalam, Gerry Adams and Rhodri Morgan. The dream has taken five years and a great deal of hard work to come to fruition, but it is still just the first step. Mehmet has been joined by Juliana Hepp, an organiser of international youth projects, in taking this dream of peace further. They have created The Power of Dreaming, a project for peace working through poetry. It is a call for youths to contact their own country’s leaders and ask for their favourite poems, creating an international drive for peace through this step closer to our leaders. This publication of this anthology is just the beginning of a worldwide project. |
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Amidst all the terror shocking the world at this
time, the various wars in the Balkan, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq,
and the many fingers pointing to Bush and Sharon, Mehmet, a young kurdish
Assailant from Turkey, tried to see the leaders of our nations as human
beings. |
