August 4, 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 Message of peace THE shock of both the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent retaliatory campaign in Afghanistan have had a major impact on East Asia. The after effects have brought a new perspective to a number of issues... EXCERPTS: No different from us ATRIARCHAL customs and economic poverty are starkly evident among rural society. And it is these two factors which are the reasons for a specific form of violence against women. Due to patriarchal customs, girls are taken out of school... EXCERPTS: The glory of Kot Diji ONE of the questions posed by history concerns the origin of civilizations. A definition is not easy, but it would be correct to apply the term ‘civilized societies’ to those which had worked out a system for living in a relatively permanent community.... ARTICLES: Window to the Middle East I DO not know if it is logical to consider the Muslim world an entity. The countries included in this category may seem to have less in common among themselves... ARTICLES: Celebrating humour I AM fortunate. I have been able to address some of my larger concerns — however inadequately — in my writing; concerns that engage my compassion and my sense of justice. And, sometimes, in pitch-black moods, I am struck by a hopeless dread of the injustice..... AUTHOR: Intellectual and activist JUST as no account of Pakistan’s political development can overlook regionalism as one of its most persistent phenomena, no discourse on regionalism in Pakistan is complete without taking into account Dr... SYNDICATED: Answers from the attic UNTIL the start of the Second World War, Otto Frank’s life was as soothing and wrinkle-free as freshly laundered linen. Born into an upper-middle-class German family — his were the kind... SYNDICATED: With deepest sympathy..... ON the first anniversary of her husband’s death at sea, a woman takes out his fishing boat. She encounters a storm and some better weather. Day slips into night and then... REVIEW: The final challenge AT one level, Ecstasy is a summer novel, the kind to take to a couch on a hot summer afternoon, lie on your side, and read with a bottle of cold water beside you. The fresh, translucent prose flows in an undulating narrative rhythm to tell the story of a little... REVIEW: A capital is born WHEN I took Orestes Yakas’ Islamabad: the birth of a capital in my hands I was certain that it would be like other books on architecture crowded with tedious details and... REVIEW: The Turkish dilemma TURKEY is a fascinating country for Europe and an enigma for the Muslim world. Since the Ataturk revolution of the 1920s there has been a tug of war which has ensued... REVIEW: The rags to riches story HISTORY has demonstrated time and again, that the most successful people usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles and failures before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats... REVIEW: Setting up a small business THE book under review is most timely. Today there are hundreds of graduates in business administration and engineering who are desperately looking for gainful employment but without any success. The author, Dr S M Naqi, has vast experience of managing public and private sector organizations and also as a successful entrepreneur.... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: A visit to the past HISTORY, a discipline seeking to understand past lives is often turned into the very antithesis of life, warmth and individual existence. Worse still, many students perceive history as a dull routine... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: Joys of learning AAO maahaul se seekhein (Let’s learn from the environment) reminds me of my school days when we looked forward to opportunities to escape the dullness of lectures in the classroom and... CHILDREN''S BOOK REVIEW: If wishes were horses... IF time could be turned back, everyone would like to return to their childhood — the golden age which passes in a wink. And even though we outgrow this phase soon,... REVIEW: The culture of mourning THE renowned poet, scholar and author, Shahid Naqvi, has made a singular and much needed contribution to the history of the culture of mourning associated with the tragedy of Karbala. His... REVIEW: Bloody Partition PARTITION and the death, misery, loot and plunder that accompanied it have attracted writers from both sides of the divide. Indeed, there is a plethora of fiction dedicated to the event....

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