Was Shakespeare an Arab?
"His real name was Shaykh Zubayr!"
“Shakespeare was an Arab. Listen, his real name was Shaykh Zubayr!”
Our principal Arabic lecturer at university was known for his booming voice and inventive sense of humour. He would always sign off such exclamations by looking you in the eye and saying: “It's not a zhoke.”
Of course he was joking and he wasn't the first to do so. The theory that Shakesp…
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