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What do you do to relax? Every night before I go to sleep, I read a novel for at least an hour. This is how I try to forget the aggressive work of the day. Right now I am reading The Zahir by Paulo Coelho. I like the way Coelho looks at world issues...
...elegant cinematography, accompanied by the cheerful music of the 1970s by “Afghan Elvis” Ahmed Zahir, renders the film incredibly engaging...
...Among the boy singers, Mirwais is tops, though he has a 14-year-old rival, Wali Fateh Ali Khan, a favorite of former King Zahir Shah. But among the common folk, Mirwais is considered the best. He and his three-piece band?a tabla drummer and rabab and harmonium players?were booked every night during the three-month wedding season prior to the holy month of Ramadan, when the partying stops. His crowning achievement came last September, when he won a famous singing contest at Kabul's Park Cinema. That day, Mirwais appeared in an immaculate white suit, handling...
...book begins as 23-year-old Arjun Mehta is about to leave for America to join the New Economy. Mehta is your average young middle-class Indian. He is smitten by a Bollywood actress named Leela Zahir, has visions of striking it rich overseas and like all Indians is, of course, an absolute genius with computers. Unfortunately, Mehta finds that he has arrived in America during an economic downturn and jobs are scarce. He finally lands a posting at Virugenix, a company that protects businesses from viral attacks, only to be laid off for no fault of his own. That...
...Iraqi line. The fighters and the U.S. special forces leading them found themselves in a bigger battle than they had anticipated. With two tanks firing as they withdrew, the Iraqis yielded their outer ring of bunkers but stood fast on the city's outskirts. Iraqi soldier Riaz Jihad Zahir explains why he and his comrades stayed. "The officers had told us Baghdad had fallen, but they said the execution squads would kill us if we left," he says...