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After introducing me to crime mystery channels, YouTube was greatly concerned about my engrossment as I discovered a plethora of videos in the three languages I speak. The Arab ones were my favourite...

Food addiction is something that doesn’t get much media coverage, unlike other types of addictions like drugs. Other than causing diabetes and heart disease, food addicts not only suffer...

While reading 'Motherland' by Argentinian author Marcello Gullo Omodeo where he defends the Spanish conquests of America against what’s known as the Black Legend created by Imperialist...

In his book ‘Motherland: Dismounting the Black Legend from Bartolomé de las Casas to The Catalan Separatism’, Argentinian author Marcello Gullo Omodeo dismantles South America’s history from...

One of the most famous Arab characters that comes from the period before Islam — also known as Al Jahiliya — is Al Zeer Salim (443-531 AD). His real name was Udai ibn Rabeea and Al Zeer was a...

It was the first day of Eid when I went to the Turkish House Restaurant to have dinner with my parents after a long day of welcoming guests in our house As we left the venue with a bag of leftovers...

In the middle of April, YouTube kept bombarding me with news clips about the disappearance of an Egyptian man called Dr Diaa al Awadi, that later changed to finding him dead in his hotel room in...

There are many questions in life that we ponder about and if we are lucky to remember them much later, we will search for answers online. But what about questions we’d never considered? What if...

As my Netflix subscription had ended and I had no plans of renewing it due to my lack of time to watch anything, I decided to watch the classics available on YouTube that I’d heard of but never had...

It’s been a while since I’ve written an article about Kitzania, not out of laziness but that of mundanity. As winter crept in, I was facing the usual dilemma of catching the cats for their yearly...

Welcome to 2084 where Margaret Thatcher’s quote ‘There really is no such thing as society’ is a living reality. So how does it look like? People are raised by robots and are so self-absorbed...

What’s a mother? The woman who brings a child to this world or the one who nurtures and takes care of him even if he’s not her own? Do mothers’ instinct exist? If it does, is it something...

As October rolled in, I went in a panic mode realising that I’d only managed to finish fourteen books which was a far cry from my hopeful target of twenty. So, I came up with a neat plan of...

While preparing food for my hoard of Kitzanians, I started humming a song that I have not heard for decades. It took me by surprise as first: I could not remember the name of the song, just the...

One of the best Western miniseries I’d watched this year is Netflix’s 'Godless' (2017). Set in 1884, it follows Roy Good (Jack O’Connell) an outlaw who’s running away with his...

One of the best Western miniseries I’d watched this year is Netflix’s Godless (2017). Set in 1884, it follows Roy Good (Jack O’Connell) an outlaw who’s running away with his mentor’s money...

English author and philosopher John Gray shares his very interesting views of life and cats in a book called: Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life (2021). But what does feline philosophy...

One of the most heinous crimes of last decade happened in Delhi in 2012, when a twenty-two-year-old physiotherapy intern Jyoti Singh was gang raped by six men in a private bus while travelling with...

My friend Sara posted a question on her Facebook page, asking her married friends if it’s fun to have their own children? It tugged at my heart as I wasn’t expecting this question from bubbly,...

It was time again for a new reading challenge with my cousin Taggy, after being defeated a couple of months back. This time we chose ‘In Cold Blood’, a book that she’d read before and liked...