Damn. Adonis has not delivered his talk at Columbia, Sinan tells me. He will give his talk next week, and he does not know that Darwish was invited and they invited Adonis as a replacement. (So don't tell him, as you may hurt his global ego). So he gave the text of his speech in advance to the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid Bin Sultan (Al-Hayat). So now somebody may correct his reference to "Ms. Yo-Yo Ma." But I heard that he will try to impress the audience with knowledge of music: he believes that Valdimir Horowtiz was the best fluit player there was.