January 4, 2004 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Reaching the top rung ONE morning in November, Elaine Shocas phoned me at 6:00am, telling me to open that day’s Washington Post. “They’ve done it,” she said, “they’ve done it to themselves.” Buried in a story speculating on cabinet appointments was... Where are the Muslims? IN mid-August 1947, with Independence, the British left the subcontinent, while the Muslims found themselves divided between two sides of the border of the new countries of India and Pakistan, hostile to each other from the beginning. The central government in New Delhi... The Thar woes FORTY-two mixed media artworks express Munir Saeed’s empathy for the desert dwellers of Thar. “They are like the tribes who continue to live on the edge of a volcano,” she explains. “They are people who cannot move... Articles: Encounters with nature FAHIM says that as a child, he was addicted to detective and mystery books that captured his interest at a very early age. “Enid Blyton was one of my favourite authors at that time,” he recalls, “and I used to love... Articles: Ghalib and Iqbal dominate the year: Urdu books of 2003 IQBAL Aur Insan Dosti, a book by Talib Hussain Sayal, begins with a quote from Iqbal’s new year message of January 1938 which was broadcast by the All India Radio. “The... Articles: Bridge between East and West SYRIAN poet and literary critic Adonis, a pen name adopted by Ali Ahmad Said, was tipped as front-runner for the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, ultimately losing out to the South... Author: In search of the self “IT could be the folklore, the history, even the promise of unravelling the long established mystique behind a landmark, or some reference in a book of history or gazetteer, that gets... Review: A mighty tribute THE gruesome murder of Wall Street reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi two years ago continues to generate much controversy. Unlike French philosopher Bernard Levy’s Who Killed Daniel Pearl, which received much... Review: Body-mind stuff IF you have read the 1990 Booker Prize winner, Possession, you are probably addicted to A.S. Byatt’s fiction. What a wonderful book that is! Imagine a lot of scholarship finely and... Review: Palestine’s human dimension AS Israel relentlessly wages what Ariel Sharon has called the second half of the 1948 war, Palestine continues to be grist to the media mills. Despite the apparent pre-occupation with the... Review: Understanding women’s basic rights THE book by Advocate Rashida Patel is an eye-opener for women as it familiarizes them with their very basic rights. Information is the first step towards an attempt to secure these... Review: Preposterous and more AS I started reading Boys Will Be Boys my heart stilled. This was vintage Suleri: the voice I had grown to love in Meatless Days. I have assigned the memoir frequently... Review: Caution against simplicity BEWARE big ideas. They may beguile by seeming to explain a whole bunch of stuff from a single, simple standpoint. But they will mislead you in the end, and make it... Review: The enigma of Al Qaeda SINCE the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, frequent references are made to the existence of a global terrorist network called Al Qaeda. Headed by Osama bin Laden and assisted by... Children''s Book Review: Very special indeed THE Special Olympics was founded in 1968 in America by Mrs Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Today, it provides year-round sports training and athletic competition to more than one million people with mental... Review: Message for kids IT is indeed a sad fact that children, as readers, are one of the most neglected segments in our society. One should not be too surprised at this, considering that most... Review: Lessons and morals ONE is not a child if he or she is not attracted to the wonderful world of stories. Of particular interest to children are the fairy tales, which arouse their imagination... Review: The year of Fatima Jinnah THE first twenty years of Pakistan’s history have witnessed the presence of Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah as a resonant political force. After her brother’s death, she acted as the conscience of the...

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