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    • Bold Women. Scandalized Viewers. It’s ‘Sex and the City,’ Senegal Style.
      Bold Women. Scandalized Viewers. It’s ‘Sex and the City,’ Senegal Style.
    • Forbidden Love
      Forbidden Love
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      Asia In-Depth Podcast: Trailblazing Pakistani Cricketer Sana Mir
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      The Woman Who Challenged Morocco’s Tourism Industry For Women’s Rights—And Won
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      Jordan’s accidental plumber trains team of Syrian refugee women
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October 28, 2019 October 28, 2019

Bold Women. Scandalized Viewers. It’s ‘Sex and the City,’ Senegal Style.

  DAKAR, Senegal — In the most controversial scene of “Mistress of a Married Man,” a hugely popular new television series in Senegal, the show’s protagonist, Marème, dons a daring...

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July 08, 2019 July 08, 2019

Forbidden Love

A coming of age story from Afghanistan, the book takes you on a journey of two teens and their star-crossed paths.  Author Nemat Sadat has dabbled with complicated topics in...

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June 07, 2019 June 07, 2019

Sunlight Through Bahraini Leaves

While living in exotic climes, My spirit leaps towards these rhymes, When seeing through this trees outline, The sun which shimmers thoughts sublime.   And as the flicker sparkles bright,...

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June 03, 2019 June 03, 2019

‘The Carpet Weaver’ by Nemat Sadat review: Poetry of the rented earth

This novel about homosexuality, religious intolerance and political conflicts in Afghanistan, is also about the beauty of life amidst ugliness How do I review The Carpet Weaver, the first novel by Nemat...

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May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019

Omani author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize for ‘Celestial Bodies’

The book tells the story of three sisters confronting Oman’s slave-owning past and a complex modern world. Omani author Jokha Alharthi at the Man Booker International award ceremony in London...

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April 28, 2019 April 28, 2019

‘Cosmopolitan Dreams’: A vital book charts Urdu’s journey from newsprint to novel

From Ratan Nath Sarshar’s ‘Oudh Akhbar’ to his picaresque ‘Fasana-i-Azad’, Jennifer Dubrow’s book sheds much-needed light on a popular culture phenomenon. An illustration from 'Awadh Punch', May 1900. | Ali Khan...

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April 09, 2019 April 09, 2019

Sabyn Javeri : Inside the Veil

WHEN SABYN JAVERI recently launched her book Hijabistan (Harper; 224 pages; Rs399) at the Karachi Literature Festival, a few of the attendees were disappointed. They felt that they had gotten a raw...

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March 28, 2019 March 28, 2019

New novel Pureland is inspired by Dr Abdus Salam's journey from a village to Nobel prize victory

“A human being is multi-faceted. To differentiate based on ideology is the most absurd thing,” says author Zarrar Said L-R: Zarrar Said, Dr. Abdus Salam   Landing in the US...

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March 22, 2019 March 22, 2019

'Whether we win or lose, we are not going to be on their side'

  Everything you write is so brilliant—how do you manage? Well, I can't answer that question without sounding immodest. To be honest, I don't feel like I have to write,...

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March 11, 2019 March 11, 2019

Overlooked No More: Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian Poet Who Broke Barriers of Sex and Society

An author unafraid to defy midcentury attitudes about her gender. “What is important is humanity,” she said, “not being a man or a woman.” Forough Farrokhzad near Tehran circa 1966....

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