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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...

Desperate times call for desperate measures is what describes the following heroic acts done by many Egyptians for the past two weeks. It started with Anas Habib, a twenty-seven years old Egyptian...

If you’re a 90’s high school graduate, you must remember the novel 'Wa Islamah' written by Yemeni author Ali Ahmed Ba’katheer and read in Arabic classes.You must also remember the super-long...

There was a fox called Thalim who lived in a small den. One day, while returning from hunting, he found that his den was occupied by a snake.He tried to take her out, but couldn’t, so he went...

For my birthday, my best friend Dalia got us two tickets to a show called Memories of Alhambra, performing on the May 9. We were both looking forward to enjoying a flamenco show, like the many others...

Is breakfast the most important meal of the day or is it what cereal companies want us to believe? How healthy are products with sugar and fat-free labels? Why are sport companies promoting unhealthy...

Whether you’re a fan of movies like The Exorcist and The Conjuring or sceptical about the paranormal world, I invite you to watch Netflix’s documentary ‘The Devil’s on Trial’ written and...

When Reem Dawood — the prominent Omani translator based in Cairo — was approached by Egyptian art magazine ‘Funoon’ to write an article describing her life as a wife of an artist, she happily...

While arranging the books in my father’s library, I came across a novel that I was gifted a long time back and totally forgot about. It was called The Shadow of God: A Novel of War and Faith by...

While my acquaintances were having a relaxing National Day holiday, I was squatting next to Sham looking at the white furball he’d just encountered behind one of the garden’s plant pots.The...

After a stressful year full of downs more than ups, I decided to take a short break and what would be better than visiting my aunt/sister Reem in the charming but chaotic Cairo?Despite the support...

I’m not a fan of Jane Austin. So, when I met my sister-in-law for the first time and she mentioned that Austin was her favourite writer, I wondered loudly about the general fascination of helpless...

“There is an unexplainable sadness in the heart of every Serbian. Maybe you’ll understand it when you finish this book.” These were the words of my Serbian friend when he saw me reading Danko...

I’m not a fan of sitar music, unlike my mom who’s a huge fan. During the pandemic, mom got to meet my best friend YouTube, and enjoyed everything it offered: English and Swahili classes, gardening...

On October 7, Arabs marked the first anniversary of the Gaza war, orchestrated by Netanyahu, the man who calls resistance movements 'terrorism' and who displayed two maps labelled 'The Blessing' and...

People of Saturday is a play that was part of the 8th Omani Theatre Festival celebrated in Muscat from the September 22 till October 3. It won the second place and was awarded for Best Director.The...