July 14, 2002 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Pulling down the walls of anger Who are the people who get involved in terrorist attacks? Why would someone kill thousands of innocent people... EXCERPTS: Bengali first or Muslim? Bengal has been ruled by Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim conquerors and different periods are accordingly characterized by the religion of the rulers.... EXCERPTS: Why our forests are dying With one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, Pakistan’s forests are in urgent need of protection and conservation. At the global level, WWF is lobbying governments to establish... AUTHOR: Isabel Hilton: With ownership of ideas Isabel Hilton arrived in Karachi on June 14, the day a bomb exploded in front of the American Consulate General, next to the hotel she was to stay in. That was... AUTHOR: Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari: King of Pushto ghazal The Khyber Pass is an integral part of Pakistan. This ancient caravan route — a corridor for invasions and the main trade route in the past... ARTICLE: Is this the clash of civilizations? Francis Robinson is professor of South Asian history at the university of London and vice-principal of Royal Holloway, university of London, and the author of The ulama of Farangi Mahall and... SYNDICATED: On the edge of great events It will come as a gratifying surprise to most of its current practitioners that the history of journalism is, according to Fred inglis, professor of cultural studies at the university of... SYNDICATED: Mum overboard Allison Pearson boasted, in a recent article, that four working mothers had already resigned from their jobs and two had become pregnant after reading her new book (and that’s before publication).... SYNDICATED: For the love of God Much has been written on Islamic mysticism (sufism or tasawwuf) but most of it is either introductory, historical or explanatory. Moreover, apart from S.A.A. Rizvi’s A history of sufism in India... REVIEWS: Autopsy of an autocracy The Peruvian Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa is one of the leading writers of Latin America today. The feast of the goat, his thirteenth novel, is an account of the last... REVIEWS: Pauperization of Pakistan A little over two decades ago, third world leaders were calling for a new international economic order. It was in the late seventies when the Algerian president, Houari Boumedienne, made... REVIEWS: Reflecting modern sensibilities Spirals don’t form in her poetry. Yet, the galaxy blooms like the glorious chrysanthemum in her verse.... REVIEWS: Politics and religion These are difficult times for people in South Asia. A person caught in the crossfire between the forces of fanaticism and political extremism finds no escape. As a result what we... REVIEWS: In trying times Dusan Kecmonavic, former professor of psychiatry and political psychology at Sarajevo University, has written a small book from theoretical and personal experiences of living in what he calls Ethnic times which...

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