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Harry Potter fans seen holding the final installment of the book series in Hong Kong in 2007. (AFP)

Harry Potter: Has the Boy Wizard Lost his Innocence in the Marketing World?

by Nada Hoteit | Jul 5, 2017 | Features

London – Exactly 20 years ago, the first book of a new young adult series was published in the UK. The hero was a bespectacled boy wizard called Harry Potter. Scotland, the author J.K. Rowling’s home country was the first to write positive reviews about “Harry Potter...

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French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1979. (AFP)

France’s Cultural Elite Lose their Historic Clout in the City of Light

by Nada Hoteit | May 15, 2017 | Features

London – Political observers are in almost complete agreement that the social movement that accompanied the recent French presidential elections led to unprecedented changes in the political structure of the country not witnessed since the end of World War II. At the...

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May 1944: Jewish deportees, with the yellow stars sewn on their
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Bauman … Protagonist of Humanity amid Modernity

by Nada Hoteit | Jan 12, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

London- Humanity has never witnessed a phase full of changes like the 20th century with all its miseries, wars, and failed dreams. The best philosopher to explain this century in all its bad incidents accompanied with slogans of development, modernity, and wealth, was...

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Clare Mackintosh won with her debut thriller, I Let You Go. CREDIT: EPA

Former Police Officer Beats Harry Potter’s Author

by Nada Hoteit | Sep 19, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

London- Former policewoman Clare Mackintosh has beaten JK Rowling to the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award for her novel “I Let You Go”. Mackintosh spent 12 years working as an officer in the British police and has decided to leave her career in...