I Hate Benjamin (2–2) I Hate Benjamin (1–2) Losing Hope, Leaving the Homeland From Blind Despair to Quiet Resilience Poetry: The Deceit of the Journey Roses, Ruins, and Resistance:  Reading Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s A Backyard Garden The Pharaohs of Hull City Poem: Whispers of a Butterfly
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Poetry: The Deceit of the Journey

With steadfast tread I climbed triumph’s towering illusion, Mistaking vain success for life’s sovereign culmination. Dr. Sajid Hussain, a renowned poet from Rawalpindi, Punjab province of Pakistan shares his poetry on humanity and

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

Poem: Whispers of a Butterfly

Whispers of a Butterfly In morning light, on petals fair, A butterfly floats through the air. With wings of silk and colors bright, She dances in the golden light. She flits from bloom to blooming rose, A painter where the wild

ALC sustains momentum in Community Campaign to Promote Sustainable Reading

The Community Campaign to Promote Sustainable Reading, launched by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) in February to coincide with National Reading Month, has achieved notable success in the first half of the year. Held under the theme

Cairo: The City of Thought

In the restless moments of waiting in Cairo, I wandered between the ebbing of words and the depth of ideas, torn between the ache of loss and the demands of study and the future ahead. I spoke to myself once, then again, then again—until I found