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Feeding the puppies became some kind of a daily entertainment for my next-door neighbours: aunt Rahma and her husband uncle Jamal. Their balcony was right opposite the wadi, from where they’d...

Mr T was hesitant to come and see the afflicted puppy. He argued that it was pointless — after all — knowing that we won’t be able to help him as he was difficult to catch. However, having an...

It was December when Mama Dog decided to descend from the mountain and deliver her litter on the north side of our tiny wadi. At the time, the south side of the wadi was controlled by my banished cats...

In her novel Elizabeth is Missing published in 2014, writer Emma Healey’s main character is an 80 years old woman struggling with memory loss.Maud Horsham’s daily life is not easy, she can’t...

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, Netflix streamed the Egyptian movie After the Battle (2012) which covers the aftermath of a certain event known in the Arab world as: The Battle of the...

Our house is divided into two cat territories. The first is mom’s room that is solely controlled by cross-eyed Poppy. And the second is my room (of course!) that is shared between three cats: Fat...

Lída Baarová (1914-2000) is a well-known Czech actress who starred in many German movies during the 1930’s and 40’s. She was the mistress of Joseph Gobles’s - the minister of Nazi propaganda...

If you’re looking for a book that makes science interesting not only for adults but also for children above 12 then you should definitely read Richard Dawkins’s The Magic of Reality (2011).Richard...