July 20, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Genesis of terrorism THE key feature of the war against terrorism that distinguishes it from wars between states is that the location, and sometimes the identity of the enemy, is uncertain. Even less certain is which individual or group of individuals is going to become an.... Excerpts: Educating the youth in days bygone THE table (below) shows the number of educational institutions existing in Karachi during the 20 years ending 1915-16 and the number of boys and girls receiving instruction in them. Those recognized by the Educational Department... Articles: When Hillary met Harry I JUST got back from the US and can only think of one word to describe my trip: “Hillary Potter”. June in the US was when the former first lady met the first boy magician to create a literary sensation around the world. The two have a lot more in common than you realize.... Articles: Readers’ choice — good and bad IT IS a means of escape. Within the bound pages of a book — any book the reader takes a fancy for — is another, far friendlier, world than the one we live in. The truth about books being our best friends lies in the fact that they are good listeners and explainers. A student while studying his lessons from a book... Author: Sindh’s master storyteller ON JULY 14, 1978, Naseem Ahmed Kharal, one of the greatest short story writers of Sindhi literature, was cruelly taken away from us. His gruesome murder left countless of his readers... Author: Laureate and hardy Observer: Do you think the Poet Laureate can write love poetry? Andrew Motion: The Poet Laureate should be able to write anything. Obs: Public property — is that how you feel?... Syndicated Reviews: Prose in peril on the sea GUNTER Grass’s rather bleak new novel centres on the sinking in 1945 of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German ship crowded with refugees. The narrator, Paul Pokriefke, is marked by the event,... Syndicated Reviews: Nostalgia for tennis of yore IN THE late 1950s, the sports writer Brian Glanville published what would become a celebrated essay in the magazine Encounter. “British sports’ journalism,” he wrote, “is still looking for an idiom;... Review: The divine names EVERY once in a while a book comes along that combines both thought and research so completely, so intuitively, that it becomes a classic, offering the reader a wealth of information.... Review: Defenders of the state ONE would not have been able to understand the rationale for an academic like Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema writing this book had he not explained to me that it was merely an... Review: Humanizing Hillary HILLARY Clinton’s runaway bestseller, Living History is a cleverly crafted memoir with multiple agendas. First, it is an attack on male chauvinism. When she spoke at her 1969 graduation ceremony —... Review: Of shattered dreams I WANT to read your book, before I lose my eyesight,” is what Anna Ma Toll would write to her, all the way from Sweden. Such gentle coaxing by the UN Advisor for Medical Social Work, forced her Pakistani counterpart, Shireen Rehmatullah... Review: And still they are hungry AN EMOTIVE title to a burning and topical issue, this resource book in essence deals with how trade liberlization and structural adjustment programmes are at odds with food security. It is... Review: They also resist THE world is waiting for the ‘big idea’ — a ‘set of ideas’ that can help people understand what really is happening around them. The traditional formations are dying or have... Review: Crash course in spying KEN Follett is not only one of the most successful suspense writers around, but he is also one of the most talented. High anticipation has surrounded the release of his latest... Review: No fountain of youth here THE author, Lawrence Whalley, is Professor of Mental Health at the University of Aberdeen. He works on molecular biology of ageing and Alzheimer’s disease (a neuro-degenerative disease). The book starts with... Review: Shared culture and its enemies IN the Indian subcontinent the existence of a number of religions, sects, and sufi orders makes society multicultural and multi-religious. There was a time when all of these lived together peacefully,... Review: Between loneliness and solitude “I SUFFER therefore I am. When someone hurts me, only I feel the pain.” This is a famous Jaun Elia dictum. One may not go along with that, but Yani, his...

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