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...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...
...Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook Night Song (Real World/Caroline). Khan, a huge star in his native Pakistan, is a singer of qawwali--Sufi religious music that, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Here, with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan sings of earthly love; the spiraling, urgent songs are mostly in Urdu, but Khan's passion and purpose need no translation...
Benazir Bhutto had grown impatient with the rumors, and dismissed them angrily. "Rubbish," she told TIME. In interviews she insisted that her ties with Pakistani President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari were fine, that the talk of his sacking her government was just disinformation from the dark forces she claimed were out to strangle her country's hobbling democracy. Never mind that Leghari himself had publicly suggested the move. If the President had problems with her, the Prime Minister said repeatedly, she didn't see why he didn't bring them up. On Tuesday morning he did just that--and laid...
...ideologies when great forces such as state and ethnicity are obscured. Her subjects were not solely rooted in Asian-American culture; she repeatedly emphasized complete multiculturism of all individuals: "Hear the opera... hear the passover... do you want to hear me yodel? Hear the songs we sang against Genghis Khan... Do you want to hear it?" (Tripmaster Monkey...
During a fall 1994 visit, Enes Kujindzic, the director of Bosnia's national library, caught the ear of Andras J. Riedlmayer, a bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture in the University's Fine Arts Library, and Jeffrey B. Spurr, Islamic art cataloguer in the Aga Khan Program. They then began to help him spread the news of the libraries' plight...