by Fadel al-Sultani | Jun 12, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Scotland’s Carol Ann Duffy is Britain’s poet laureate, an honorary title and British tradition that was first introduced in 1668. John Dryden, one of the greatest English poets, was the first British poet laureate. He occupied the position for two years and was...
by Fadel al-Sultani | May 6, 2017 | Sports
London – To the majority of football supporters, the Italian game is a fallen giant. Serie A is seen as a fading image of what was once the best league on the planet – an image that remains vivid only in the memories of older generations. Its keenest aficionados...
by Fadel al-Sultani | Jan 3, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
London- Many people cannot believe that Tawfiq al-Hakim could have been an author of children’s literature. They cannot believe that the man who wrote “The People of the Cave,” “The Return of the Spirit,” “The Return of Consciousness,” “My Donkey told me” and many...
by Fadel al-Sultani | Oct 31, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture
How can innocent, tortured spirits live in peace while their oppressors haven’t paid for their acts and may never do? Chilean-American novelist Ariel Dorfman has raised this question in his book “Death and the Maiden”, inspired from a real incident that took place in...
by Fadel al-Sultani | Oct 14, 2016 | Entertainment
After a little over a decade of being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, American rock sensation Bob Dylan won one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel— noting that a musician winning the top award in literature is a first. Mr....