Shakespeare's Relevancy

This week’s blog post might be short for a major reason.

Although I avoid watching television music competition franchise such as “Arab Idol”, I simply cannot resist this season.

Why?

Well, this is the first time a Palestinian contestant gets qualified to join this competition  and let me tell you this contestant is not only innately handsome, he also has the finest vocal range my ears have ever heard *-*

Don't you agree with me?

Mohammad Assaf (the Palestinian contestant)

Just 3 days ago, we encountered the annual “Nakba Day”.. can you believe that Palestine has marked 65 years of occupation?

 Palestinians today stand by the distorted face of their homeland, while the distorted face of nations ignore their cries for help.  Which is why I consider Mohammad Assaf Palestine's portal to freedom and justice, if he wins, he will be able to channel the shrills crying for justice in Palestine to the world. 

..and just as I consider Mohammed Assaf Palestine’s portal to equity, William Shakespeare was England's portal  to evocative language and dramatic structure. With his unique style his work was added to our English class syllabus. There’s no doubt that Shakespeare is relevant today. After all his work encompasses themes and issues that are still relevant today and can be related to. William Shakespeare’s characters tend to possess a special quality, they are fallible which makes them SO real to his readers. For a matter of fact, if Shakespeare wasn't relevant today, we (students) wouldn't be able enclose this certain mental discipline in analyzing the English language. We also can not forget the words and phrases, that Shakespeare introduced, which remain in all of our vocabularies on daily basis.

So how dare we question his relevancy today?