Zerohedge, if you’re not familiar, is a alternative-to-legacy media website devoted primarily to things financial, but dips its toes in other waters with some regularity. Recently it took note of a “not very academic” 120 page article positing that Shakespeare was Middle-Eastern… Okay!
Today I received a notification from Academia.edu telling me about a piece written by Sushil K. Jain from Canada, entitled, and hold your breath, ‘Shakespeare, the Sheikh, Who Became a Peer’, subtitled, ‘The Eastern Mind Behind the English Stage: A New Model of Shakespearian Authorship’, published 2026.
You can link to it through this X post or here.