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...Musharraf Farooqi, the 39-year-old translator, is an unlikely savior. Growing up in Pakistan, he read of Amir Hamza's exploits in abridged Urdu versions adapted for children - virtually the sole form in which the epic survived into the 20th century. Farooqi, who admits to not being the most diligent student, would drift into daydreams inspired by the stories in class, imagining, he says, that he was a demon "running around with a tree trunk and clobbering humans with it." In university, he frequently shirked his prescribed engineering curriculum for a pile of dog-eared folk tales scrounged from...
...Following the traumas of partition, which created Pakistan as a haven for India's Muslims in 1947, the multicultural and multiracial Adventures was even regarded as vaguely suspect. "It reminded Pakistanis of a cultural identity that undercut their religious one," says Farooqi. "It needed to be ignored." But Farooqi, thankfully, could not ignore it. After a stint in journalism in Karachi, he moved to Canada in 1994 and, while dabbling in children's fiction, set up the Urdu Project, an online journal of translations and literary criticism. Then, on a wintry night in 1999, Farooqi says that a "horse-headed...
...calligraphy, and badminton. Each delegation will also go to tourist sites, museums, and restaurants in their host cities, said Mejia. Yesterday, the selected Harvard students gathered to learn their delegation placement and to be congratulated by HCAP officers. Over 150 people applied for fewer than 80 spots. Samia S. Farooqi ’07 said that she was excited to participate in the Bangkok conference. “It is a great opportunity to travel but not just as a tourist,” Farooqi said. “You get to communicate with your peers.” Huma...
...labor would have been the worst [expense], but I did it myself.” The changes in the Grille will not just be visual. The menu is also changing in an effort to appeal to the palates of hungry Eliot residents, according to Samia S. Farooqi ’07, one of the Grille’s managers. “We’re trying to attract a wider audience by having healthier options [in the Grille] as well” said Farooqi. Although most of the menu changes don’t hearken back...
...DIED. ASIM GHAFOOR, Islamic militant allegedly linked to the outlaw group Harakatul Mujahideen; after being shot by police; in Islamabad. Pakistani officials claim that Ghafoor had ties to Amjad Farooqi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative killed in September who was wanted in connection with the 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl as well as two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf. Deputy inspector general of police Javed Ali Shah Bokhari said Ghafoor "had a role in all terrorist activities orchestrated by [Farooqi...