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The OMG Shakespeare series replaces prose with text speak and emoticons. Furious academics have branded the new books 'absolutely disastrous.' Regarded as some of the finest works in English literature, now some of William Shakespeare's greatest plays--Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream--have been translated into emojis.

Nineb Lamassu, a researcher at England's Cambridge University, travels among the Assyrian diaspora, recording the traditional epic poetry of the Assyrian ethnic minority and capturing at least the memory of an ancient people whose presence in their homeland is gradually fading.