January 26, 2003
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AUTHOR: Ghada Karmi: Articulating Palestine
 Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian activist, academic and writer living in London. Her autobiography In search of Fatima tells the story of her flight from Palestine in 1948 and her life...
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The personal & the political
 When a people exist they inevitably have a story. In search of Fatima is the story of the Palestinian people. Ghada Karmi’s book under review is the missing piece of the...
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EXCERPTS: In Manto’s spirit
 At the height of the cold war when America was about to sign a deal by which in return for military assistance Pakistan would commit itself to combating communism in South East Asia and the Middle East, the great Urdu short-story writer, Saadat Hasan Manto, who lived in Lahore, wrote a series of facetious letters to ‘Uncle Sam’....
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EXCERPTS: Individuality of expression
 Ghalib began writing poetry in Urdu at the early age of 10 without having served under any ustad (mentor), as was traditional....
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ARTICLES: Will peace come dropping slow?
 The stanza above, from Yeats’ “Lake Isle of Innisfree”, has long numbered among my favourite lines of poetry, with a tendency to come to mind in any languorous moment....
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The humble question mark
When it comes to a literary posterity, premature death can be a good career move (Chatterton, Keats, Georg Buchner, Wilfred Owen), but not always. If your untimely demise is also violent...
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AUTHOR: Dr Riazul Islam: A passion for history
 Like thousands of alumni of the Aligarh Muslim University, Dr Riazul Islam, Karachi University’s only professor emeritus, is beholden to his alma mater for transforming him from a callow but promising...
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SYNDICATED: They dared to be different
 According to Lady Colin Campbell, author of The etiquette of good society (1898), “you cannot be too formal or too prim in laying out a table”. The formidable society hostess goes...
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SYNDICATED: Dance to the music of time
 ‘Duende’ is one of those words that is almost impossible to translate into English, because its meaning relies on a wide frame of reference that even many Spaniards would have difficulty...
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REVIEWS: Growing gap
 In Promises not kept: the betrayal of social change in the third world, John Isbister addresses the need for social change in the third world with feelings and a sense of...
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REVIEWS: True memoirs of a geisha
 One of the most talked about books at the moment is Geisha, a life by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown. Iwasaki, who was the most famous and sought-after geisha of her...
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REVIEWS: Using each other?
 Pakistan’s half-a-century-old relationship with the US is a history of broken pledges and shattered dreams in our popular perception. From day one of this unequal equation between a superpower and a...
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REVIEWS: Birds of a feather
 The River Indus begins from the mountains of Tibet and ends at its mouth on the Arabian Sea after traversing a long journey of some 1800 miles. The Indus Valley, home...
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REVIEWS: Dear Anie ...
 He hero-worships her, but then he is not the only one to be doing that, there are many many people who admire Qurratulain Hyder. She is a titanic figure in the...
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REVIEWS: The founding father
 Abu Nasr Al-Farabi (ca.870-950) is one of the founding fathers of Islamic philosophy. He read Plato and Aristotle in Arabic translation. Inspired by the two great Greek legends, he laid the...
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REVIEWS: On shifting shores
In 2000, Hima Raza’s first collection of poetry Memory stains forged new direction for English language poetry in Pakistan with its original, unusual experimental poems which use both space and structure...
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