by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 3, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Legendary US rocker Tom Petty died on Monday after suffering cardiac arrest. The artist, who gained famed with such hits as “Refugee,” “Free Fallin’” and “American Girl,” was 66. He was found unconscious at his home in Malibu early on Monday morning and was taken to...
by Amir Taheri | Oct 21, 2016 | Opinion
Last month, Geir Lundestad, the former secretary of the Nobel Academy broke the august body’s traditional reserve to express his deepest regrets in having awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008. “That was a big mistake,” Lundestad lamented. Should we...
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....
