I was going through my old school books today to try and remember something silly I had bet on when I came across Shakespeare’s most amazing sonnet .. Now I could’ve simply copied and pasted it, but I actually typed it and really enjoyed doing so … 
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed
And every fair from fair sometime declines
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’est
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’est,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
By the way, I heard the silliest theory a couple of years ago from a friend that Shakespeare is originally Arab, and that his name is Sheikh Zobair! LMAO!
Now when you hear such bull you should act as if the person who said it doesn’t exist at all, which exactly what I did. I did not even discuss it with him, because I was busy looking for a sharp pencil to stick it in his ear all the way to the other one and put an end to his terrifying ignorance.
Now what’s interesting is: as I was going to conclude this post with the above sentence, I googled (شيخ زبير), I know, silly me … but take a wild guess!! Turns out that there are lots of people who actually support that absurd theory!
Can you friggin believe that?? Shakespeare is Basrawi! They actually specified (not guessed!) where he’s originally from!
The original title of the post was merely “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
HEHEHEH … The reason they picked Basra, is that right next to Basra there is a little city called Al Zubair. So they made the short-circuit (can’t call it connection really)
Anyway, there is nothing that prevents someone from having roots elsewhere. I would have probably guessed that he was from Spain .. maybe closer to the east than we thought. And he may or may not have had inspiration from stories coming from the east.
It’s all possible… does anyone have a solid proof …. Not yet … and I doubt anyone would give it any serious thought
Whosane, before dismissing anything as observed, an investigation is probably needed unless it blatantly defies logic
who-sane ( I’ll call you Housain?), i always hated what he writes! i feel like a dump and i don’t understand what he is bull*
No waaay! I don’t believe such stuff.. they always like to relate foreigners to arabs.. msh fahmeh lei y3ne..nahfeh! al shekh zubeir!
Qwaider: I’ve been to Al Basrah and to Al Zubair in specific … weird eh? It was back in 1997 or 98, my cousin studied in Basrah and one day he had a car accident when he was driving and two of his friends were tragically killed, he survived, but we had to go there and pay the diyyeh (blood money)and have an official 3atwa, one of the guys who died was from Al Zubair. Did my cousin probably kill one of Shakespeare’s cousins? I really doubt it! Shakespeare form Al Zubair, this one really defies logic, at least from my perspective.
Sel3: You can call me Husain … but DUDE! You’re hurting me! This is Shakespeare (or Sheikh Zubair) we’re talking about!!! The literary legacy he left us is just phenomenal!! I know the vocab he uses falls into utter oblivion, but nevertheless, his plays and poetry are undoubtedly the best!
Mrs. Al Ramahi: I know! Crazy stuff … there’s also a theory that George Bush is an Arab (kidding)… But I’d believe that if he’s originally from el 6afeeleh! lol
Ok, so I read sel3 comment and he put who-sane next to Husain and I am like…duh, who-sane just sounds like Husain, is it coincidence or pure genius on your part?
By the way, hubs gave me a copy of Sheikh Zobairs love poems for our fist year anniversary….aawwwwwwwwwww.
7aki … I also gave my wife “How shall I compare thee?” when we were boyfriend-girlfriend
Hey,
my 8th grade english teacher told us that his name was sheik kbeer..
And he was serious as hell, he even saw the explosion of the space shuttle in 1987..He saw lots of things…
you reminded me of him!!Absar wen arathi hassa..
Esma3 3la seeret 3arab,
Did you hear about the girl that will destroy paul wolfwitz, the arab media is crazy about it because she is from an arabian origin..This make you wonder if our string pullers palnted this girl for this guy to take him down..
we arabs are funny and stupid at the same time, we like to think that this girl had sex with him for arab and muslim causes.
hahahaha
how do they come up with such things!!!?? originally Arab, and Basrawi.
i love that sonnet…
that is so funny how people come up with that stuff…i wonder who started this rumour…someone was bored while reading a shakspear play in class, so the was day dreaming and came up with this..
tayeb 7elooooooooooooo kteer bema 2eno kol wa7ad a3ed be6ale3 saaawaree’7 3ala kaifo aja dooree ana asane3 saroo’7..
ya cd hatha o ana ga3ed hadeek el yoom ma3 el shabab fee jalset 6araweh(bena2 el dma’3 el 3alee project)..wa7ad men el shabab ba3ed ma tagal mn el 3yar tele3 be nazaryeh momtazeh 3ajabtnaa sara7aa gal asel shakeskbeer …bel asel Sha’7s Ekbeeer ya3nee 3ala ra2y el shabab el dewanjeyeh Zalameh GAd 7aloooo……hasa begoloo el 3olma2 enoo shakspear aslo men el ordon mo men el basrah zay ma 7akat shabab fee jalset 7asheesh o’7ra ..wel sabab ya 6aweel el 3omor sha’3eltain 3endoo tayaseh mesh tabee3yeh o nekadee jedan 3omro ma ebtasam hal zalameh…
wel sbbab el thanee is 3o6ail o heyeh asasha bel llo’3ah 3a6el o 6aba3an hay el kelmeh bel that mofradat ordeneyeh ma7aleyeh 100/100 so yala sha’7s ekbeer tele3 ordonee ya cd roo7 sho bedak a7la men heech hasa…
o slametkoo
kan ma3okom moraselkom nimirspear men ga3det dewanjeyeh Amman ….he3he3he3he3he3
7elo, tayeb, why not? ya3ni if shakespear was rooted back to arabs HE HAS a lot to be proud of! I think this happens in all cultures, that ppl are rooted to other origins, and I cant see this one as farfetched besara7a, inno why not? shoo inno wa7ad KBEER?!
bass agoool, hath el shakhs el kbeer elli gad 7alo (golet nimmer) is boring, dull, and stupid and i never EVER completed a whole story of him, i dont even know the right sequence of his 3ogla and juliet!
3a rasee maraym walahee ka2enek ma3ana kontee be nafs el ga3deh
that is %100 right, he is Basrawi and I am Bruce Lee
Mohanned: I used to have an English teacher who claimed he was abducted by aliens! hmmmmmm … maybe he’s the same guy!!
ta2e3: yeah, he really is
sam: yeah I also think this Shakespeare’s best sonnet. Sonnets kind of remind of the roba3iyat. Has anyone read Samarcande by Amin Maalouf?
Nimirspeare: shoo 7asheesh ma 7asheesh? oskot ma ti7keeeesh!
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Mariam Ayyash: yes you’re right, why not … you know Ben Affleck is بينجامين عفلق, Frank Zappa is of Lebanese decent and so many others. It could be as Nemir said that he is شخص كبير or شيخ زبير … but to be honest … he’s anything but boring, dull and stupid. He was a literature genius. Have you watched Leonardo Dicaprio’s Romeo and Juliette? It’s the same, but without the guns, the cars and the chopper of course
Abu_shakuush: yeah … you’re Bruce Lee and there are still virgins in New York
la2 ma shofet, w ma beddi ashoof :p and about ben afflick, I KNEW IT, 7asseit walla, akeed kan jeeranna belzamanat, thank u for bringing families together
listen man, all i know about romio and juliet that they had the worst luck in the world, gal inno after she made herself look dead, she wakes up and finds that he KILLED HIMSELF, w zay ma beseer bel aflam el masrieh, she killed herself in turn, emlee7 ma gawwam romio afterwards, then fired himself in the head, then she woke up and … etshahadat, w rij3et mattat, moteh tabee3ieh!
ma ba7eb el aflam el masrieh, bass ba7eb el blog taba3ak, so keep it going 
thank you mariam!!
Romeo and Juliette were two star-crossed lovers, that’s the whole point of the tragedy, is that no matter how much they tried, they won’t be with each other. w ba3dain Romeo and Juliette mosh zay el aflam el masriyeh, hiyyeh el aflam el masriyeh elli zay Romeo and Juliette
ya salaaam 3al ayyam Shakespeare ….
its worth to mention that the complete works of W. Shakespeare (abt kamshet plays … to be honest without indents) is worth about 24 $ while the complete works of dan brown is (only 4 novels) for 43 $ ( thats in KSA which will be more expensive than the US ) …. i just find that disturbing …
and about this theory … i THINK Qaddafi was one of its first adopters … i heard it from him many years ago … i think its written somwhere in his Green Book …
I really miss reading Shakespeare … it has been a while and i’ve been busy reading other books (and recently blogs) … i hope i will restart … ( by the time i was 18 i have read most of his plays ,,, not all in english though … )
lol @ shaikh zubair
yes Isam, you’re right, all Shakespeare’s plays are cheap comparatively, but don’t forget that his works are centuries old.
You’re also right about the Qaddafi point, who else would come up with such a theory
mo: welcome to Who-sane’s