UAEspirit.. a writer and poet.. where did it all begin?

... years back when I engraved my first words on the side of my desk while waiting impatiently for the morning to come. They say poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words... and for me I always found myself confused and lost in my own emotions.. till I found my way out of it.. by writing poetry. All of us are writers and poets.. but some of us live the poetry we can't write in words. As they say.. to be a poet is a condition, not a profession. 

What or can we say who inspires you to unleash all that passion in your writings and poems and inspires you to do so..?

Inspiration never arrives when you search for it, but it simply comes to you and all the inspiration I ever needed was to live my life with all its little moments. There is a great treasure of inspiration in us all and that great treasure has the power to explode from our hearts so many feels.. things our eyes can't see and our minds can't understand. 

When did you first start using the internet?

In 1997, when my brother introduced me to this world that I adored since then.

What skills/knowledge did you have before starting your own 1st website? and How did you gain the right skills/knowledge afterwards?

I'm a self-taught in this field, and I think I got so far because I really enjoyed what I was doing and wanted to learn. My first web site was built in geocities.com tools manager in a very simple format no complicated HTML or FLASH was needed back then so all I really needed was the ability to use the Internet. Afterwards, I had to gain skills and knowledge in different HTML, Graphic design and Flash programs which I learned either in school or by myself.

What programs do you use in your website?

The usual:

Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator

CuteFtp

FrontPage

Flash

So tell us, what is the best thing about being a web mistress? What things did you benefit from having your own website?

Expressing who you are.. in the words you choose and the images you decide to reflect who you are is the best thing about being a web mistress. We are all strangers here.. our names, our words and the place we build to be our home is what makes us different from each other. A website, is not just meaningless HTML codes, its who we are here in this huge strange place and my website gave me this chance to be who I am.. to express what I feel and share it with so many people out there, people I might never meet, but still gave them the chance to know who I am.. even if it was through simple words.

You also have quite a talent with the graphics.. how did you manage to reach to that level? How did you learn?

As you've seen in my website, my graphics are pretty simple.. I depend mostly on the image I choose to stand with the words I share. I learned that through experimenting and with the help of some websites and friends.

Any funny incidents, stories that happened to you (as UAEspirit).. =P

*lol* so many incidents happened and I believe one of them was with you Kitty, but let me tell you about the most recent one. Where I work no one knows that I'm UAEspirit, but so many of my coworkers visit my website and talks about it most of the time. They talk about my poetry and who is the person behind those words, they even asked me if I got a copy of Whispers *grin*. I always stayed quiet and never took part in their conversations. On the day before New Year's my sister wanted to throw a birthday surprise party for me in the office. At 12 noon I was in my office checking my email peacefully, when all of a sudden the door opened and my sister walked in carrying my birthday cake. Surprisingly, all I can hear singing is my sister.. and the rest of my friends were walking behind her... eyes wide open in a big shock. I didn't knew what was going on till I discovered that my birthday cake looked like the cover of my book Whispers. Of course my sister had no idea of what was going on * she thought everyone knew I'm Spirit*. To make the long story short, my coworkers are still staring at me till today not believing I'm UAEspirit.. and I still have a long explanation to do to them!

You also helped a lot of people with their websites, (I am one of the first ones =P) Can you tell us more about that? What pushes you to help others?

When I first used the Internet I was amazed with all those great websites I've been to, and I always wanted to have one for myself.. but I was a stranger to this world and I had no idea of where or how to begin. It took my a while to stand on my feet and learn so many things on my own.. I'm proud that I did that all by myself, but to be honest with you so many times I wished if someone was there to help me even if it was for a simple thing.. at least I would know that if I got stuck with something someone would be there, but I was all alone. We are all talented in our own ways, and its such a big shame not being able to share those great talents with people out there to see our work just because we don't have yet the necessary skills to have our own websites. Although I might not professional in websites... but I do my best to help my friends or anyone who would need the first step to begin.

UAEspirit.. how did you come up with such a nick? Any story behind it? 

This might come as a surprise, but the nick UAEspirit was actually named after my eldest brother. When I first used the Internet my brother used to study abroad and we chatted online a lot. He talked a lot about how he missed us back home and how he wishes if he was there with us and -being the poet I was- I used to tell him "... its true you are not here, but your spirit is with us all the time". Months after that, on his birthday I wanted to send him and e-card.. but I didn't really liked anything so I decided to write to him a poem that was called "A poem to the UAE spirit" and designed a simple page for him on the first website I ever made.. named after my brother.

As I personally know you, you are an ocean of hidden talents and which I frankly was surprised to know about. *mashAllah 3alaich* Wanna share some with our visitors? ;)

I wouldn’t call them talents, but they are some things I really enjoy doing. Such as taking photos, playing on my guitar or spending an endless time cleaning my coins and discovering old books and ancient scripts. 

You recently published one of your latest books: “Whispers” (which I got a signed copy of.. *hehe*).. Can you tell us more about it?

Whispers

You are also planning to publish another book, that tells an interesting real story about an Italian man. Actually you are kind of re-writing his real journal.. can you tell us more about that?

Silent Vows is based on a true story about a prisoner called Andre' Ange'li who ends up paying his life for a crime he never did. This might sound like a story you read before, but the interesting part is that.. Andre' actually wrote about every day he lived in his cell in so many details you can't imagine. I can't say more about the his story, but I can tell you that to be able to write his story I got the chance to look at his actual writings, his last pictures.. video versions of his trial and the letters he shared with his Julie'. In Silent Vows, I will do all I can to turn Andre' memory to an image, and this image to a voice to let the world hear how cruel life can be and how some humans don’t have mercy on their own race.

Listen to UAEspirit playing three tones in her guitar:

Algeria

Moh'd Abduh
Lyila

Download the tones here:

Algeria/ Moh'd Abduh/ Lyila

"Spirit is the soul of feelings..."

                              -Ib3aad

"She is UAE's Juliet, the queen of hearts & truly.. One in a million"

                          -Masked Man