With steadfast tread I climbed triumph’s towering illusion,
Mistaking vain success for life’s sovereign culmination.
Dr. Sajid Hussain, a renowned poet from Rawalpindi, Punjab province of Pakistan shares his poetry on humanity and nature
Dr. Sajid Hussain, born on February 1, 1969, in Morgah, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s A Backyard Garden is a profoundly human, polyphonic novel set in contemporary Egypt. It weaves together the lives of individuals in the village of Kafr El-Sarai, focusing particularly on the enigmatic figure of Sayyid Kamal—a hero of the Egyptian independence movement who retreats from public life to live
In 1964, in Paris, the global Egyptian star Omar Sharif was filming his famous movie Doctor Zhivago. He was living at the time with his British actor friend Sir Tom Courtenay in the same apartment. Sharif noticed Courtenay’s deep passion for the results of the English football team Hull City, which was then playing in the second
Whispers of a Butterfly
In morning light, on petals fair,
A butterfly floats through the air.
With wings of silk and colors bright,
She dances in the golden light.
She flits from bloom to blooming rose,
A painter where the wild wind blows.
No map, no plan, no single sound,
Just graceful swirls above the
The Community Campaign to Promote Sustainable Reading, launched by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) in February to coincide with National Reading Month, has achieved notable success in the first half of the year.
Held under the theme "Knowledge Illuminates Our Community", the campaign aligns with the UAE’s
