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...customers" or advertise. Let the product sell itself if it is good enough. Take a cue from Muslims. They do not proselytize in the same way Christians do, but they are gaining converts all the same. It is all about a person's conviction, not aggressive salesmanship. Atinuke Haroun Lagos...
...mini-series was doomed. The Indian government deemed it too risky to be filmed in Bombay; Sri Lanka gave permission, then changed its mind. The project lay dormant until Rushdie was approached by the RSC. They'd seen director Supple's 1998 production of another Rushdie work, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, at the Royal National Theatre, and were keen to bring the two men together again. Supple, who worked on the stage adaptation with Rushdie and Simon Reade, says they wrestled with the scale of the book: "We had to make it clear, vivid, exciting and simple enough...
...informant had positively sighted Al Tbaiti. Intensive surveillance of his movements eventually led police to his two accomplices. In addition, TIME has learned, authorities arrested three Moroccan women as possible accomplices: Tbaiti's wife Bahija Haidour, his sister-in-law Houria Haidour, and Alassiri's wife Naima Haroun...
...Best Books of 1996" the Moor's Last Sigh was mentioned as Salman Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses. However, he wrote a novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of a Writers' Guild award), in 1990 while in hiding after the fatwa. During this period he also published Imaginary Homelands, a collection of essays and criticism, and his first (and so far only) collection of stories, East, West. IRFAN AHMAD KHAN Karachi, Pakistan...
Rushdie's more explicit answer to the Ayatollah can be found in his children's story Haroun and the Sea of Stories, published soon after The Satanic Verses. In this story, a renowned and persecuted story-teller is given two opposing nicknames: some call him the Ocean of Notions, others the Shah of Blah. The same dichotomy can be seen in Rushdie. His political significance has less to do with his writing than it does with his continued existence, the living hero of a sometimes abstract cause. We read Rushdie, though, because in his work larger forces--the forces...