May 2, 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 The human factor MANPOWER migration is a phenomenon that has become a primary intra-regional concern in the Middle East in recent years. In terms of both their specific nature and relative magnitude, the trends of this migration for employment within our region warrant careful evaluation and objective analysis.... EXCERPTS: We are ugly but we are here ONE of the first people murdered on our land was a queen. Her name was Anacaona and she was an Arawak Indian. She was a poet, dancer, and even a painter. She ruled over the western part of an island so lush and green that the Arawaks called it Ayiti, land of high.... ARTICLE: The magic of magical realism “FOR what is the history of Latin America but a chronicle of magical realism?” writes Alejo Carpentier in the prologue to his acclaimed novel The Kingdom of This World. Rereading this... ARTICLE: How globalization affects literature GLOBALIZATION has emerged as an issue of concern to people from all walks of life, and it was entirely appropriate that the Saarc writers conference held recently in Lahore should have... ARTICLE: Inherited passion FOR Sikander Sultan, reading is a passion that he has inherited from his book loving father and grandfather. As he started reading at a very early age, Sikander recollects his earliest memories of being a book worm and says that Urdu magazines like Naunehal, Bachon Ki Duniya and Taleem-o-Tarbiat were his valued companions.... ARTICLE: No pain, no gain DAVE Pelzer likes to talk about himself in the third person: “Dave”, “David James”, even “Mr Pelzer”. It is as if he did not quite believe in his own existence. And... REVIEW: The Soros doctrine “AMERICA under Bush is a danger to the world,” writes world renowned financier, author and philanthropist George Soros in his hurriedly-written new book The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse... REVIEW: Inspired by the sufis AMONG all the 10 gurus of the Sikhs only Baba Nanak was born in west Punjab where the Lehnda dialect of Punjabi is spoken and which has produced the best Punjabi... REVIEW: Saffron brigade on the march THE book in hand, The Rise of Hindutva Fundamentalism, is an effort, as the title suggests, to explore the kind of fundamentalism that is being nurtured across the border in India.... REVIEW: Bangs to whimpers WAS the cinema invented during the 1960s? Peter Cowie seems to think so. He was a young man during the age of Aquarius and in his new, helplessly nostalgic book, he... REVIEW: Beyond belief MORE than a year after the Gujarat massacre, The Guardian correspondent in Delhi, Luke Harding, wrote a moving piece about how his “love affair with India” had ended. Harding could walk... REVIEW: Homework is work AMONG the maladies afflicting Pakistan’s education system, homework is an unlikely one for most parents and educators. But for most children, it is one of the major causes for conflict with... REVIEW: Interpreting history A Modern History of the Islamic World is a book of good, solid historiography, avoiding the term “class” like sin. But it is German scholarship (the author is professor at... In brief THE Tony Blair New Labour Joke Book is a 138-page collection of rehashed old Internet jokes, with new names forced in. The jokes border on insulting, but one feels it couldn’t have been otherwise considering the extremely stiff and boring personalities... Review: Master of all he surveyed TRAVELLER and Mongolist extraordinary, John Man, has written an absorbing account of the life, death and influence of Temujin, known to history as Genghis, Jenghiz, or Chinggis Khan. Orphaned at the... Review: Random thoughts FAIZ Ahmed Faiz wondered why only hunger grew in the fields that overflowed with abundance. Similarly, Oliver Goldsmith observed, “Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates,...

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