Lamp post

The lamp post is situated in front of the Al Raha theatre in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. With a capacity of 2100 seats, the theatre hosts the most popular live television show of the Arab world — The Million’s Poet (شاعر المليون), followed by approximately 70 million viewers. The show can be said to be a poetry version of the American X Factor, in which a number of amateur poets from several Arab countries compete for the first prize, equivalent to DKK 8 million. The content of the poems has often generated controversy across the Arab world, for instance during the Arab insurrections in 2011. However, Hissa Hilal, the first female finalist, created in 2010 an even larger stir when she recited a poem featuring a series of attacks on religiously authoritarian rulers. Hissa Hilal received a number of death threats for her poem but finished third in the competition, earning a prize corresponding to DKK 4,8 million.