I recall the first time I visited Nakheel Palestine for Agricultural Investments Company fields at Jericho two years ago, when MIGA was still at the early stages of underwriting the project constituting planting date trees.

In Gaza earlier this week I met a group of students learning cutting-edge computer animation skills at a technical institute we support.

From the chants of crowds to graffiti on public buildings, poetry has been a common feature of the demonstrations that have taken place across the Arab world over the last year.