Nostradamus. His name is synonymous as a soothsayer seemingly able to predict the future. His true name was Michel de Nostredame, and of the many accomplishments he had as both a physician and an ...

RUBAA’I, or quatrain, is considered a difficult poetic genre to compose despite its brevity. A quatrain, as the name suggests, is confined to just four lines since the word rubaa’i is derived from an ...