BEIRUT, Lebanon — Few world leaders are known to write poetry. And almost none record their marital breakups in verse on their personal websites. Then there is the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who has been publishing his romantic anguish online, in Arabic and English, for anyone with an internet connection to read. / Your deathly silence has worn me out,” he wrote in one poem posted on his official website. “I don’t care if you live or die.”Princess Haya, the most visible and glamorous of the sheikh’s reported six wives, has left him.

Source: International New York Times July 02, 2019 21:43 UTC