December 21, 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 Culture in resistance movements TAKE the Palestinian situation as a case in point. There’s a whole assembly of cultural expression that has become part of the consolidation and persistence of Palestinian identity. There’s a Palestinian cinema, a Palestinian theatre, a Palestinian poetry, and literature in general.... Excerpts: Pathways to peace IN his address to the United Nations General Assembly in the autumn of 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified hostility between India and Pakistan as one of the most “perilous” threats to global peace and security.... Articles: Can the United States correct itself? SOME questions are worth asking not because one knows the answer but because they are important to ask. In a recent paper Peter Gowan cautions that “the Americans are not stupid” and we should not underestimate American grand strategy. The goal of... Articles: Kafka’s world, our world IMAGINE one fine day you get up in the morning and find yourself turned into an insect, a louse. How would you perceive this mortal world then? How would others react... Articles: Not confined to a circle THERE should be no restrictions on the variety of books devoured by readers. So this time the type of books we are going to discuss are mostly German because our choice for “Reader’s Choice”, Shamim Manzar’s field is, in.... Author: Critic of capitalism THE people at the local bookshop had not heard of Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), the most influential post-war German social theorist and philosopher, whose centenary was celebrated in Germany on September 11.... Review: The end is near THERE are books and then there are BOOKS. Sir Martin Rees’ Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-First Century? doesn’t just fall into the latter category, it explodes... Review: Man and technology TECHNOLOGY is proving to be a double-edged sword, says the book under review. For every nuclear plant that produces electricity, there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of N-bombs that can rain death... Review: Hostage to an exploitative culture THE All Pakistan Federation of Labour (APFOL) has recently brought out a publication entitled Productive Role of Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Pakistan. It is an all embracing and comprehensive... Review: Polemical weapons IN the competition for Britain’s best left-wing polemicist, Nick Cohen wins every time. His column in The Observer is lucid, principled and irresistibly readable. But polemics have their limits. They are... Review: How much is a dancer worth? ONE is always amazed to discover the various elements that become part of traditions and culture. I have always believed that it is not religion alone that creates different cultures! In... Review: Propaganda weapon THE American president’s strident justifications for the invasion of Iraq become decreasingly credible as the absence of proof of the supposed massed weapons and Al Qaeda links becomes more evident each... Review: Assembly line espionage THE haste with which suspense author Ken Follett is churning out books is now being felt in the quality of his work. His debut novel Eye of the Needle released in 1978 was innovative, creative and well-written. Since then he’s produced consistent moneymakers... Review: Search for right friends THE potential reader must be warned at the beginning — this book, originally published in French, is not a history of Pakistan in the conventional sense, not to be compared, for... In brief RED Rabbit is another in a long line of Tom Clancy extravaganzas that weaves a twisted yet believable tale of a parallel universe which seems to constantly inhibit the writer’s imagination.... Review: Portrayal of Sindh THE saying, ‘people who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it’, holds as true for Sindh, as it would for any other land and people. The accounts of...

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