In a friendly meeting with some “international” friends as we like to call it, a half Dutch half French friend was speaking to us in English and then all of a sudden she looked at me and said an expression in pure rhetoric Arabic. Being
On my second day in Algiers, my friend, Laeed Zaghlami, a Professor of Information and Communication at the University Of Algiers in Algeria took me on a sightseeing of the quaint and picturesque Algerian capital.
From my Sofitel Hotel abode on Rue
We are not exaggerating when we emphasize the exceptional role that the great novelist Naguib Mahfouz played and influenced in contemporary Arab culture; a role that transcended the boundaries of literary narration to the spaces of the arts that touched
Can the nature of a human being change? A fresh grain of wheat produced by a fertile land bursting with goodness is grinded into flour. This precious flour is then turned into a pliable dough that can easily be shaped according to the expertise and skill
When someone is oppressed by another person he/she stands helpless and in distress. He can feel weak, wronged and as much as he is filled with humiliation he is filled with hate towards the person who did this to him. He looks around in despair hoping
During the 1950s and 1960s, as a young man, I had the pleasure of attending the old Khedivial Opera House to watch magnificent performances of Chinese folk arts. I also attended, on two occasions, ballet performances by what I consider the greatest ballet company in the world, the Russian Bolshoi Ballet. These were performances of extraordinary beauty and artistry.
Thanks to my friendship with, and
