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Ivory Coast hosts Arabic Poetry Forum

Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the Republic of the Ivory Coast hosted the fourth edition of the Arabic Poetry Forum in the capital, Abidjan. The event was organised by the Cultural Affairs Department at the Sharjah Department of Culture, with the

Losing Hope, Leaving the Homeland

Students are leaving the country due to substandard, expensive education and a lack of opportunities. Mujtaba Rehman| Swabi KPK Education is the most important and powerful tool in this modern century. Education is not just about reading textbooks but it is the learning of skills, good behavior, being respectful in the

From Blind Despair to Quiet Resilience

On the wooden cart, atop a mat spread over bundles of straw, lay a child asleep—a child whose chances of survival were slim. That sick, innocent child was my father, Qurban Ali. Suddenly, a ragged, God intoxicated wanderer stood right in the middle of the road in front of the bullock cart and said, “Take him home. Nothing

The Pharaohs of Hull City

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

Understanding the Shift in Friendships

Perhaps friendship, like life itself, is fluid. Some people walk with us for a mile, some for decades. By Abdullah Usman Morai | Sweden The Unspoken Grief of Fading Friendships It often begins quietly — a delayed reply to a message, a missed call that goes unreturned, a birthday that slips by unnoticed. There’s no fight,