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3 days ago · He was much beloved in Egypt, but sadly not by everyone; his support of Salman Rushdie, as well as the controversial religious allegories of "Children of Gebelawi", inspired an assassin to stab him in the neck in 1995, when he was 84 years old. Luckily, Mahfouz survived for another dozen years.
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3 days ago · Kalki's legacy in Tamil literature, explored through his granddaughter Gowri Ramnarayan’s translation of his iconic novel, Ponniyin Selvan.
5 days ago · Children of the sin. The exact number of métis children in Belgium is unknown. According to the Save institute in Rwanda, they hosted 124 children when they were brought to Belgium, and 881 other children were taken from Ruanda-Urundi and the region around the Kivu lake.
5 days ago · J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). His writing continued to be published after his death, including The Silmarillion (1977) and The History of Middle-earth (1983–96).
2 days ago · After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes, he launched a series of military campaigns, conquering large parts of China and Central Asia. Born between 1155 and 1167 and given the name Temüjin, he was the eldest child of Yesugei, a Mongol chieftain of the Borjigin clan, and his wife Hö'elün.
1 day ago · Fear not, as Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, are expecting their second child early in the New Year, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Their first child together, Sienna ...
2 days ago · A Wolastoqi elder is launching her latest project to try to preserve her language and share her culture. Opolahsomuwehs, whose English name is Imelda Perley, has a new children's book out, written ...
