October 5, 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 Journey of a thousand miles THE quest for peace is not new to Pakistani society that has been plagued with numerous ethnic, sectarian and political conflicts internally and has been living with a sustained external conflict with neighbouring... Excerpts: In a state of ecstasy IT was in December 1954 that I received an invitation to participate in the celebration of Maulana’s shab-i ‘arus, or “spiritual nuptials”, as the memorial day for a saint’s death is called. I had recently arrived... Articles: Ordinary people, ordinary lives TRANSCENDING time and space, Michael Meredith has transported Anton Chekhov over the Atlantic from 19th century Russia to 21st century America. Michael Meredith’s first feature film, “Three Days of Rain”, is... Articles: Coping with dark moods ASAD Jan fell into the book habit in his childhood because there was no television in those days of yore. With both his parents and two elder siblings being avid readers, it was inevitable that Jan too began... Articles: Selves and Others RARELY have I seen such a spell-binding narrative. Almost an hour passes by and you feel it has gone by in the wink of an eye. In the film, Said looked emaciated as his illness had taken its toll. “My illness takes up fifty to sixty per cent of my time... Syndicated Reviews: Mr Murdoch’s makeover WILL the real Rupert Murdoch please stand up? No, not the charming, visionary, dynamic Mr M (as portrayed in William Shawcross’s ultra-benign biography), nor the shadowy, scabrous, BBC-destroying Rupert (as here... Syndicated Reviews: Demons at home décor IF you were pretty, posh and female in the 17th or 18th century there was not much point in marrying for love. Instead, quite sensibly, you (and your mother) kept a... Review: On the outside, looking in AT first glance Paul Lunde’s Islam — Faith, Culture, History seems far removed from the spate of insights into Islam guidebooks, which seem to have hit a post-September 11 world roused... Review: Juvenile instincts CHILD Star will be many readers’ first introduction to Matt Thorne, and its heavily awkward style seems suited to a clumsy first novel, not the work of an experienced writer. Still,... Review: Engimatic Iran: change and continuity ALI M. ANSARI, a British academic scholar of Iranian origin, has written a very engaging book to capture the perplexing times in Iran during the 20th century, what he calls A... Review: Tales from a distant land LIFE for first generation immigrants in Britain was not as smooth and comfortable as many would believe. They had to struggle against economic pressures, the pain of uprootedness, the humiliation of... Review: Reporting on racism The above are the words of a female Liberian refugee and journalism student describing an attack on her by skinheads in Moscow in February 2002, quoted in ‘Dokumenty!’, an Amnesty International... Review: Rewind and replay ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, stunned viewers around the world witnessed what was termed as ‘America under attack’ by all news channels. Numbed with the suddenness and the immensity of the act... Review: More than brilliant FLIPPING through the pages of Noam Chomsky’s Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, one is reminded of Arundhati Roy’s recent essay titled “The loneliness of Noam Chomsky”, where she writes, “If I... In brief THE bestseller novel Roots was a touching family saga spanning over two and a half centuries. In fact it was Alex Haley (1921-1992) the writer’s own story. In it Haley had... Review: Religion in Punjab politics ACCORDING to Abdullah Malik, Punjab mainly consisted of barren and uninhabited areas until the end of the Sikh rule. The revenue collection system was comparatively backward on account of the foreign...

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