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[5 May 2004 | Comments Off | Ghazi Salahuddin]
Back to the Future

While the friendship between India and Pakistan flourishes, former High Commissioners of both countries recall the turbulent relationship of the past.

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[4 May 2004 | Comments Off | Aquila Ismail]
The Jackal’s Wedding

Tariq Ali deftly uses Arab and Iraqi poetry to illustrate his tale of imperialist aggression.

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[1 Apr 2004 | Comments Off | Samina Ibrahim]
Write On!

Founded by Yasmin Qureshi and Tyaba Habib, SAMA Editorial and Publishing Services spells hope for upcoming Pakistani writers.

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[1 Mar 2004 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Interview: Sara Suleri Goodyear

“I am very allergic to being called ‘exotic,’” says Sara Suleri Goodyear.

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[1 Mar 2004 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
A Daughter Remembers

Sara Suleri’s new memoir illuminates the joy and pain of life with Z.A Suleri.

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[1 Feb 2004 | Comments Off | Aquila Ismail]
Forced Parallels

Iranian author Azar Nafisi fails to make a convincing case for using Nabokov’s Lolita as the prism through which to view the Iranian revolution.

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[2 Dec 2003 | Comments Off | Ayela Khan]
Broken Images

An evocative look at immigrant families and the alienation which binds disparate children to their emigre parents.

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[2 Nov 2003 | Comments Off | Razeshta Sethna]
Interview: Khaled Hosseini

“If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community,” says Khalid Hosseini.

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[2 Nov 2003 | Comments Off | Razeshta Sethna]
Through War and Peace

Hosseini draws on personal history to construct an evocative account of pre-war Afghanistan.

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[3 Oct 2003 | Comments Off | Tehmina Ahmed]
Interview: William Dalrymple

“There is far more in common between Delhi and Lahore than there is between Delhi and Madras,” says William Dalrymple,