Abstract
Introduction
The year marked the birth centenary of the two celebrated Urdu writers, Saadat Hassan Manto (1912-1955) and the poet Meeraji (1912-1949), which led to several related essays and publications including a commemorative volume Manto edited by Ayesha Jalal and Nusrat Jalal. Among the Independence Day honours, Manto was given posthumously the highest national civil award, the Nishan-i-Imtiaz, an official recognition of his bold, timeless writings which had once earned the ire of Pakistani officialdom.The posthumous publication of translations of Chinese poetry by the pioneering Ahmed Ali (1910-1995) was an event of great significance too. The year also saw a particularly rich offering of English language fiction and poetry including new novels by Nadeem Aslam, Uzma Aslam Khan and Mohsin Hamid as well as a new story collection and debut poetry volume by Anis Shivani. There were also notable poetry collections by Athar Tahir and Shadab Zeest Hashmi, prescient political analyses by Ahmed Rashid and important historical works by Ishtiaq Ahmed, Khalid Ali and Sajjada Sultan Alvi.
The year’s national civil awards included the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for Kamila Shamsie. In the United States, The International Women’s Media Foundation’s Annual Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Zubeida Mustafa, the distinguished Pakistani journalist, while Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s The Baker of Tarifa received the 2011 San Diego Award. The Pakistan Academy of Letters’s Patras Bokhari Award for 2009 was given to Shaila Abdullah’s novel Saffron Dreams; the 2010 award was shared by Ejaz Rahim’s Safwat Ghayur and Other Poems and Khaled Ahmed’s Word for Word; Amina Azfar’s Urdu Short Stories received the academy’s 2009 Mohammed Hasan Askari Award; Pakistani Urdu Verse translated and edited by Yasmeen Hameed, received the 2012 Jang-UBL award. The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmed and Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif were shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize; Alice Bhatti was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Award; and Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s Clay and Dust was shortlisted for the Man Asia Award. Farooqi’s quiet, subtle and nuanced novel is set in the sub-continent but in a nameless post-independence country and revolves around two aging and once-famous protagonists, Ustad Ramzi, a pahlawan (wrestler) and Gohar Jan, a tawaif (courtesan). Once they had enjoyed the patronage of a pre-Partition elite and their professions were governed by strict time-honoured etiquette and traditions but now they find themselves regarded as relics of the past, overtaken by a brash new social order. The versatile Farooqi also published a slim ebook fable The Jinn Darazgosh (Scandals of Creation) and produced Pakistan’s first graphic novel Rabbit Rap: A Fable for the 21st Century. Illustrated by his wife Michelle Farooqi, this rambunctious tale of power, money and ambition does lose impetus, though it has much of promise. It is set in the rabbit-warrens where FRUMPS (Fat Rabbits Urging Modern Perspectives) battle against the OGREs (the Old Generation Rabbit Elders). Husband and wife have also created an enchanting children’s book Tik Tik Master of Time.
Roopa Farooki’s accomplished, intricate and lively fifth novel The Flying Man tells of the charming, Lahore-born, privileged, Stanford-educated Maqil, a compulsive gambler, conman and liar. His many aliases include Mehmet, Miguel and Mickey. He traverses continents and countries with ease and writes a play during his stint in a British jail. He marries thrice, but his marriage with Samira, his second wife, and their days of high-living and adventure, end with the birth of their children: he cannot face the responsibility. Mohsin Hamid’s third novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia tells a rag-to-riches story in the form of a self-help book. Hamid succeeds in lampooning the genre, while creating story around the nameless protagonist addressed as “you”. In vivid descriptive prose, Hamid captures the sufferings and tribulations of the rural and urban poor, the thwarted ambitions of an educated middle class, and the opportunities available to the canny, upwardly mobile survivor, willing to join vigilante university gangs and work in illicit businesses, such as smuggling luxuries or catering to the super-rich. Bribery, violence and corruption contribute to the acquisition of great wealth but happiness remains as elusive as ever, as does “the pretty girl” he loves.
Pakistan’s involvement in geopolitics and its reverberations on the daily lives of ordinary people runs through Uzma Aslam Khan’s fourth novel the haunting Thinner than Skin, set against the spectacular landscapes of northern Pakistan Gilgit, Hunza and Kaghan.The encroachment of modernity into a timeless land is interwoven with references to the area’s folklore and creation tales. The plot alternates between Maryam (a nomad rooted in the culture and customs of the region), Ghafoor (a trader who has lived and travelled the neighbouring China and Central Asia – Kashgar, Samarkand, Almaty – and is caught up with the region’s anti-American tensions) and Nadir, an unsuccessful expatriate photographer in the United States. Nadir returns to Pakistan to photograph its famous glaciers which are part of a research project undertaken by his Pakistani American lover, Farhana and her American colleague Wes. They are accompanied by Nadir’s Karachi friend Irfan, but Farhana’s failure to understand nomad customs leads to an appalling tragedy. Aslam Khan provides a very fine portrait of grief, guilt and imploding tensions as the lives of Nadir, Mariam and Ghafoor become intertwined and their scenic paradise is overtaken by a police hunt for a notorious terrorist.
Nadeem Aslam’s fourth novel, the poetic The Blind Man’s Garden, revolves around the family of the deeply religious man, Rohan, in a small Punjab town. He and his late wife Sofia had set up a school The Ardent Spirit, but he has been eased out by a new breed of politicized extremists who teach a militant creed quite alien to him. The gradual loss of his sight becomes a metaphor for personal conflicts as well as the contradictory forces at play in Pakistan. During the American bombing of Afghanistan, Rohan’s son, Jeo, an idealistic medical student, slips off to Afghanistan with his foster-brother, Mikaal to help the wounded. But there they are caught up in events beyond their control. Jeo is killed, unknown to Mikaal, who is imprisoned by a mercenary Pakistani warlord, mistaken for a potential terrorist by the Americans and befriended by a boy with links to al-Qaeda. Caught in a circle of suspicion and violence, each time Mikaal escapes, he finds himself in yet another trap. The novel interweaves stunning description of natural life and the region’s rich history. At the heart of it all is a great love story: Naheed, the girl that Mikaal has always loved, is married to Jeo, his best friend.
Saad Shafqat a medical doctor and cricket commentator in Karachi, made his fiction debut with the riveting Breath of Death, the first medical thriller in Pakistani English fiction. In a modern, Karachi hospital, the neurologist Asad is greatly disturbed by an atypical case of encephalitis. Aided by Nadia, his bright, enquiring student, he unearths a terrifying plot with ramifications far beyond the Pakistan.
The US-based Ayad Akhtar (winner of the 2013 Pullitzer for Drama) published a first novel The American Dervish a self-conscious bildungsroman set in the 1980s. The narrator Hayat, grows up in Milwaukee, the only child of quarrelling, incompatible parents, Muneer, his religious mother and Naveed, his philandering unreligious father, a successful doctor. His mother’s somewhat unreal, divorced friend, Mina, a spiritual, beautiful and literary woman, comes from Pakistan for a prolonged stay. The pre-teen Hayat is infatuated by her and enthusiastically studies the English translation of the Quran which she reads to him regularly. But Mina falls in love with Naveed’s Jewish colleague Nathan. Their courtship takes the form of decorous sub-continental semi-arranged marriage, approved by Hayat’s parents. In no time, Nathan agrees to convert and marry Mina. Hayat’s meddling and Nathan’s visit to the local mosque ends in disaster. Mina ends up marrying an Islamic fanatic, with the un-Islamic name of Sunil. Rosie Dastgir’s first novel A Small Fortune explores a dysfunctional British-Pakistan/Muslim family. In a northern British milltown, Harris (born Haaris) receives a substantial divorce settlement from his English wife. Thanks to the interference of his pious, unemployed protégé, Rashid, he finds himself at odds with his independent daughter in London. He loans the money, instead, to his manipulative business partner and relative Nawaz, with dire consequences. How It Happened: The Story of an Arranged Marriage by Shazaf Fatima, a satirical novel set in Karachi, lampoons the time-honoured custom of arranged marriages that Dadi the narrator’s grandmother and family matriarch holds dear – oblivious of changing times, and the aspirations of a younger generation of Pakistani women.
The versatile Anis Shivani, author of a recent collection of critical essays Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies, is also an innate storyteller. In his second collection The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, the title story is a confessional narrative set during the persecution of Bhutto-supporters during the Zia regime. The narrator claims to be an informer, a once-trusted member of the Bhutto household. His chatty “insider” views of the Bhutto family cleverly mingle truth, half-truth, rumour and disinformation. In “Growing up Blind in a Hotly Contested State” Safdar, a Pakistani American academic addresses issues related to the Islamic world, reflects upon his childhood in America and the influence of his liberal, creative American neighbours — and makes an astonishing discovery about his marriage. In “Alienation, Jihad, Burqa, Apostasy” the Karachi-born narrator rebels against his wealthy father’s new found enthusiasm for religion and moves to the United States; a decade later, he joins a group of Islamists. The aftermath of 9/11 is implicit to several stories. “The Shade of the Wavering Palms” provides a moving portrait of a Pakistani man who discovers various friends and colleagues are arrested by the FBI and fears that he might be next.
Shivani’s debut collection My Tranquil War and Other Poems explores literature, film, politics, past and present, and the shaping of our world. Divided into five sections, the first section “Apathy” begins with “Harold Bloom’s Old Age” which refers to writers who define the western literary canon from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Keats to Wilde. This is followed by a poem which reflects other unquestioned certainties. The collection includes poems such as “Satyit Ray’s Aparajito (1956)”, “Cocteau’s Pierrot Le Fou” and “Fellini’s 8 ½” which refer to great cinema classics, their powerful images and their resonance. The second section “Arousal” includes “The Birth of Stalin” while “The Revolt of Islam” reflects upon the circumambulation of Kaaba during pilgrimage; the prose-poem “Salman Rushdie Detained (and Deported) by Homeland Security” makes a witty comment on western notions of “the Alien Other”. The section “Madness” begins with “Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth Hospital”, comments on senseless violence in poems such as “Spectator at Gandhi’s Assassination” and moves to the chillingly quiet “The Life of Virginia Woolf”. The section “War” refers to Orwell and the British Raj and engages and indicts America’s wars in the Middle East, with poems such as “Reaganesque”, “The War in Iraq Poses Irreducible Problems in Identification” and “The Abu Ghraib Images”. The final section “Entropy” includes “To Derek Walcott” and challenges the definition of racial superiority and the literary glorification of empire.
Shahdab Zeest Hashmi also comments on today’s divisive politics in her lyrical second collection Kohl and Chalk which continues with themes of cultural commingling intrinsic to her work. The book begins with a prose poem “I look out of the Mughal Window”, welding past and present and is divided into several sections. The first “Cardamom Eyes” revolves around weddings and marriage and includes a performance poem, “Taste Buds Bloom in Silence”. The poet comments on her dual cultural inheritance in poems such as “Bilingual” while “Monsoon” interweaves the memory of jamun fruit and Chopin. Several poems tell of Pakistan’s ancient history or landscapes: in “Hunting by the Ravi” she captures images of Lahore and the Punjab; “Gunga Din’s Revenge” describes an erstwhile colonial club in Peshawer; “Swat” encapsulates the tragic conflict in that region. Other works in this diverse collection include “Jinnah’s Typewriter” and “Fatima Jinnah Enters Her Brother’s Study” which consider the aspirations of the nation’s founder and his activist sister. The book’s final section “A Mirror on the City Square” includes “US Air Strikes” and “Guantanamo”— while others such “Mosque de Paris” celebrate multiculturalism. Kohl is interspersed with several English ghazals including “Ghazal for the Ninth Month”, which is addressed to her American-born child, and “Knotted Ghazal” which assumes mystical echoes, welding images of Sinai, temples and shrines.
Hashmi has also published English qasidas, a poetic form that both she and the Lahore-born Athar Tahir modernize, albeit in different ways. Tahir’s new collection A Gift of Possession includes “Andalusian Qasida” describing his impressions of Cordoba and Granada. He follows this with “Mughal Triptych”; its first poem “Monument” tells of the suffering of toiling labourers creating edifices of imperial splendour; the sequence also tells an emperor’s personal tragedies: lost loves, rebellions, incarceration. Tahir’s sequence “Requiem Sonnets” includes an elegy to his Oxford-friend, Benazir Bhutto. The collection has much else to offer, including descriptions of the Punjab in poems such as “Lahore Canal” and memories of America and other lands in “Charles River” and “Salzburg” while “Quake Quartet” laments the devastating 2007 earthquake. Syeda Henna Babar Ali’s Rainy Days continues with a rather stylized pre-occupation with the mystical experience. She is at her best with the few spare vivid poems revolving around observations of nature and daily life; these include “The Pond” with its imagery of natural life alongside watery reflections of moon, pond and city lights; “The Dow Jones” comments on economic collapse, and “Traffic Jam” becomes a metaphor for life’s journey.
Moniza Alvi’s English renditions of the French war-time poet Jules Supervielle appear in her recent collection and she has now put his work together in Homesick for the Earth a bilingual volume with Alvi’s English translations published alongside Supervielle’s original. The posthumous publication of Ahmed Ali’s translation from the Chinese The Call of the Trumpet: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry at the Pakistan Embassy in Beijing commemorates his opening of that office as Pakistan’s first Charge d’Affaires. The anthology was compiled earlier, in 1947-1948 during Ali’s tenure at Nanking University as Visiting Professor of English. This gives the book an even greater literary and historical significance: it pre-dates the Chinese Revolution and coincides with the independence of India and Pakistan. Ali brings his own poetic sensibility to his translation but employs a spare contemporary English — very different to the stylized “oriental” voice which Ali employed subsequently in his own English poetry and his translations of Urdu verse. The sense of unease and of the problems faced by China at the time emerges in poems such as Ai Qing’s metaphorical “Snow is Falling on China’s Land” while Feng-Zhu’s “The Years after May 4, 1919” looks back upon the idealism of youth, with the words
Although a minority
We had put our faith
In a Norwegian dramatist
And swore
By a Russian Revolutionary
We were all for truth
for co-operation (78)
Many of the poems are also filled with references to sages and songs, rivers, seas, and landscapes as well as daily life.
A Special Pakistan Issue of the Canadian poetry journal Vallum, guest-edited by Ilona Yusuf and Blaine Marchand, includes work by several established poets. Zulfikar Ghose’s “Silent Birds” describes contemporary Pakistan, news of violence in Lahore and terrorist attacks in Bombay while “Sialkot” tells of the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965 wars. In Waqas Khwaja’s “Triptych” the expatriate narrator reclaims memories of his homeland: the sea, the mountains and above all, Lahore, his native city; Moniza Alvi’s “At the Time of Partition” tells of a widow stranded in Ludhiana on the “wrong side” of the border to her children. The volume is particularly important because it introduces many talented new poets, many of whom have not yet published full-length collections: this includes the accomplished work of Mehwish Amin, Bilal Tanweer, Sahar Rizvi and Sadaf Halai. The special issue of The Critical Muslim: 04 Pakistan? co-edited by Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab includes essays, memoirs, stories, criticism and translations. Yassin-Kassab’s vivid essay “Why Isn’t It Exploding?” takes the reader from Karachi to Islamabad, Lahore and Bahawalpur, gathering together small anecdotes, political news, and cultural and historical events, to capture Pakistan’s diversity. Other essays describe the pulse of Pakistan’s major cities including Quetta and Peshawer. Aamer Hussein’s essay “Found in Translation” follows his enthralling discovery of the Urdu classics. Muneeza Shamsie’s “Discovering the Matrix” traces the matrilineal literary inheritance of her family across four generations. Maniza Naqvi’s anthology Festival! consists of contributions — “embers” — ranging from a few words to stories, poems and essays. The quality of the work varies drastically despite notable poems by Kishwar Naheed and Atiya Dawood, fiction by Rukhsana Ahmed and MirzaWaheed, anecdotes by Manu Joseph and memoirs by Qaisra Shahraz, FahmidaRiaz and Naeem Mohahmaien.
The year saw many translations of interest including The Maulana and the Mahatma: Gandhi’s Urdu Letters consisting of letters written to the great scholar, Maulana Abdul Bari of Firangi Mahal, grandfather of Mahmood Jamal the translator. Attiya Dawood’s memoir Images in My Mirror translated by Amina Azfar is a fascinating vivid and lucid account by a major feminist Sindhi poet of her long and courageous struggle for empowerment and independence. Dawood’s portrayal of her early family life in Sindh under straitened circumstances which were exacerbated by her father’s untimely death, captures traditional social structures which provide both support and age-old constraints. The intelligent and observant Dawood soon discovers the link between women “possessed by jinns” and their appalling marriages. She describes her rebellion and her resentment against discriminations of gender. She tells of her discovery of old Sindhi classics among her brother’s books; thanks to him, she joins a school in Nawabshah and goes to college in Karachi; but for years, she suffers from a lack of confidence though she starts to establish a name for herself as a feminist Sindhi poet. The book leads up to her marriage to the supportive, liberal Khuda Bakhsh Abro, an artist, activist and a kindred spirit. A Story of Days Gone By, a translation by Tahera Aftab of Biti Kahani the memoir of Princess Shahrbano of Pataudi, includes an erudite, scholarly and detailed introduction by Aftab. Written at the behest of an English friend c1888, this is “the first autobiographical work by a Muslim woman of South Asian origin as well as one of the earliest autobiographies in Urdu literature” (1) and also gives the 1857 Mutiny a woman’s perspective. The Princess’s opulent marriage in Pataudi to a prince of Jhajjar provides a marked contrast to the travails of 1857 and their aftermath, including the execution by the British of the pro-rebel Nawab of Jhajjar. Her tale gives insights into the hardships endured by powerless royal brides: her mother spurns her, her mother-in-law torments her, her profligate husband reduces her to bankruptcy, and disease claims her children.
Escape from Oblivion by Ikram Sehgal tells of a half Punjabi, half Bengali officer in the Pakistan army during the 1971 military crackdown. Incredulous that Bengali officers in his old unit have mutinied and killed their West Pakistani commanders, he rushes off to see them. He is mistaken for a spy, tortured and imprisoned in India. After a dramatic escape he finds himself under great suspicion in West Pakistan where he is jailed and interrogated. Anwer Dil’s Bangladesh: An Intercultural Collage: Shahid Suhrawardy, Shah Waliullah, Akther Hameed Khan, Abbassadin Ahmed, Ahmed Hasan Dani, Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah consists of biographical essays on six towering cultural figures in a united pre-1971 Pakistan. Their contribution is pivotal to the history of modern Pakistan and Bangladesh. Dil’s biographical sketches are enlivened by photographs, extracts from letters and other writings including the poetry of Suhrawardy, an overview of Ikramullah’s memoir From Purdah to Parliament and reports by Khan discussing his pioneering rural development work in Comilla.
The Oxford Companion to Pakistani History edited Ayesha Jalal is an excellent, informative and comprehensive reference book on Pakistan with entries on prominent figures, political events, art and literature. In Perspectives on Mughal India: Rulers, Historians, Ulama and Sufis by Sajjida Sultan Alvi provides rare insights into different schools of Islamic thought and in particular their role and impact in the eighteenth century as Mughal power. Ishtiaq Ahmed’s detailed, scholarly work The Punjab Bloodied Partition and Cleansed pays great attention to the importance of oral history. Each chapter includes extensive interviews with Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and others. Ahmed traces the history of the Punjab, its ancient origins, its language, social groups, religions, sects and the impact of colonial rule. He provides a detailed analysis of political developments in the Punjab across the twentieth century and the growing communal tensions in 1947 following riots in Lahore, Multan, and Rawalpindi. There are also fascinating insights into nationalist leaders, British colonials and their policies, leading up to the disintegration of the Punjab and the fate of people living in its different regions on both sides of the border. Ali Brothers: The Life and Times of Maulana Mohamed Ali and Shaukat Ali by Khalid Ali, is a rich and comprehensive biography of the two legendary brothers and contains a wealth of little known information about their family lives, as well as the freedom struggle in which they were so famously engaged.
On The Brink: The future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West by Ahmed Rashid (a distinguished journalist) provides a lucid and thought-provoking analysis of Pakistan’s current crisis. The book begins with the US raid on Osama bin Laden’s home in Abbottabad, an episode which embodies the many contradictions and confusions that beset Pakistan and which Rashid skilfully explores. His account includes the respective policies of General Musharraf and Asif Zardari, the unsolved assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the occupation of Swat by religious extremists. The courageous and thought provoking Confronting the Bomb edited by Pervez Hoodbhoy (a Pakistani physicist) consists of essays by Indian and Pakistani scientists indicting South Asia’s nuclear arsenal. Vintage Cowasjee by Ardeshir Cowasjee is a compilation of the Sunday columns in Dawn by an unusual man, a scion of Karachi’s founding fathers and a shipping magnate. He wrote fearlessly and with wit to condemn illegal construction, political corruption, bureaucratic mismanagement and much else.
Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin challenges the ongoing demonization in the west of Islam and Muslims through provoking critical essays on English fiction by diaspora Muslim writers. Stephen Morton’s “Writing Muslims and the Great State of Exception” contrasts the portrayal of Muslims in the fiction of western writers with Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Rehana Ahmed’s essay “Reason to Believe” discusses Sarfaraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park and Yasmin Hai’ s The Making of Mr. Hai’s Daughter and looks at issues of hybridity, community and Britishness in their work. Lindsey Moore’s “Voyages Out and In” explores The Eye of the Storm and Minaret, the respective bildungsromans of the Egyptian-born Ahdaf Soueif and the Somalian-born Leila Abouleila. Claire Chambers’ “‘Sexy Identity-Assertion’: Choosing between Sacred and Secular Identities in Robin Yassin-Kassab’s The Road to Damascus” examines the narrator’s quest for identity as a British Syrian. Amina Yaqin’s “Muslims as Multicultural Misfits in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers” debates Aslam’s portrayal of an honour killing. She examines the current western condemnation of the practice alongside criticism in Pakistan that Aslam panders to stereotypes. Peter Morey’s “From the Politics of Recognition to Policing of Recognition: Writing Islam in Mohsin Hamid and Hanif Kureishi” takes a comparative look at Kureishi’s Black Album (1995) and Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Other essays include Anna Hartnell’s discussion of John Updike’s The Terrorist.
The year saw a growing number of critical articles in international journals on Pakistani English literature and Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies continues to be a major resource on Pakistan for essays and creative work. In the local print media, Dawn’s Books & Authors has introduced a weekly column on aspects of literature by different academics: contributors included Claire Chambers, Kamran Asdar, MU Memon, Mehr Afshan Farooqi and Zulfikar Ghose. Desi Writers Lounge is the country’s first online creative writing workshop which also has a bi-annual journal Papercuts. Another new online journal The Missing Slate provides a platform for art and literature.
From this it can be seen that Pakistani English literature continues to grow with some truly compelling new novels, poetry collections, life writing and other works of non-fiction, though there continues to be a paucity of published drama. The forums offered to new writers through special issues of literary journal and online resources, the official recognition for Manto, the publication of Ahmed Ali’s translations, and the immense popularity of literary festivals and events at literary cafes and studios have created a new dynamic for Pakistani literature, which is also likely to encourage new talent. The year saw many losses. Shehzad Ahmed (b.1922) Urdu poet and philosopher; Razia Butt (b.1932), Urdu novelist; Ardeshir Cowasjee (b.1926), English language columnist; HajraMasroor (b.1930), Urdu novelist; Murtaza Razvi (b.1964), English-language journalist and editor. They are deeply mourned.
Bibliography
Bibliographies Published Serially
“Bibliographic News” Muhammed Umar Memon Annual of Urdu Studies 27 pp282-284 [see
MLA International Bibliography 2012 [see Pakistan-related items in the relevant sections].
“Recent Pakistan Related Texts” David Waterman Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 4(1) np; 4(2) np [see
Research Aids
Bangladesh: An Intercultural Exchange: Shahid Suhrawardy, Akhter Hameed Khan, A.H. Dani, Syed Waliullah, Abbasuddin Ahmed, Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah Anwer Dil 486pp Interculural Forum (San Diego) and Adorn Publications (Dhaka) US$40.
“Home Grown Kid-Lit” Saman Shamsie Newsline September pp88-90 [on the development of Children’s Literature in English in Pakistan].
Oxford Companion to Pakistani History ed Ayesha Jalal 584pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1500 [see
“Remembering Saadat Hasan Manto (1915-1955)” Tariq Ali Counterpunch Weekend Edition Jan 13-15 <http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/13/remembering-saadat-hasan-manto-1912-1955/>.
Sixty Years of Publishing in Pakistan 1952–2012 Oxford University Press 133pp Oxford Univ Press.
South Asian Resistances in Britain 1858–1947 Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee 208pp Continuum (London) £22.99 [2011].
“The Silent Past” Kamran Asdar Ali Dawn B&A: Dawn B&A (Karachi) 16 Dec pp3-4 [essay on the 1971 conflict].
Poetry
Ahmed Ali The Call of the Trumpet: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry [see
Akhtar, Rizwan “Lahore Evenings” Pakistaniaat 4[1] pp110.
Ali, Syeda Henna Babar Rainy Days 154pp Maktab Jadeed Press (Lahore) Rs500.
Alvi, Moniza Homesick for the Earth: Poems with Versions by Moniza Alvi Jules Supervielle 112pp Bloodaxe £9.95 [2011, bilingual edition Supervielle’s French original and Alvi’s English adaptations].
Hashmi, Alamgir “No End of Summer” Bengal Lights: Autumn pp97.
Hashmi, Shadab Zeest “Kohl and Chalk” 75pp Poetic Matrix (Madera, Calif).
—– “New York Qasida” Contemporary World Literature 8 May <http://contemporaryworldliterature.com/?s=new+york+qasida>.
Hussein, Adrian A. “Medusa”, “Balcony” Bengal Lights Autumn pp154-155.
Mohammed, Avaes “I’ll Explain What I Am” Wasafiri 72 Winter pp15-16.
Rahim, Ejaz Dear Maulana Sahib and Other Poems 136pp Dost Publications (Islamabad) Rs275.
Tahir, Athar The Gift of Possession 120 pp Tanabana (Lahore) Rs500.
Shivani, Anis My Tranquil War and Other Poems 136pp NYQ Books (New York) US$16.95.
Kehar, Taha Writing Words with Fire 64pp Cinnamon Teal (Margao Goa) Rs175.
Drama
Mohyeddin, Zia Theatrics 191pp National Academy of Performing Arts (Karachi) [essays, see
Fiction
Akhtar, Ayad American Dervish 352pp Weidenfeld & Nicholson (London) £12.99.
Ali, Ahmed “Our Lane” Wasafiri 70 Summer pp 68-73.
Aslam, Nadeem The Blind Man’s Garden 415pp Random House (New Delhi) Rs550.
Aslam Khan, Uzma Thinner than Skin 346pp HarperCollins (New Delhi) Rs499.
Dastgir, Rosie A Small Fortune 392pp Quercus (London) £12.99.
Farooki, Roopa The Flying Man 352pp Headline (London) £16.99
Farooqi, Musharraf Ali Between Clay and Dust 213pp Aleph (New Delhi) Rs450.
—– and Michelle Farooqi Rabbit Rap: A Fable for the 21st Century 302pp Penguin Viking (India) Rs499 [graphic novel].
Haider, Shazaf Fatima How It Happened: The Story of an Arranged Marriage 320pp Penguin India (New Delhi) Rs895
Hamid, Mohsin “The film is embellish with my love of music of funa and of beauty: Mira Nair” pp70-73; “I don’t think the job of a film is to be a novel on screen” Mohsin Hamid pp74-77; Amra Ali Newsline September [interviews on the film The Reluctant Fundamentalist].
—– “The Third Born” New Yorker 24 Sep <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2012/09/24/120924fi_fiction_hamid>.
Naqvi, Maniza “Red Moon Rising” Three Quarks Daily Feb 27 <http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/02/red-moon-rising.html>.
Shafqat, Saad Breath of Death 264pp Wisdom Tree (New Delhi) Rs245.
Shah, Bina “Peter Pochman Goes to Pakistan” Wasafiri 65 Spring [2011] pp29-27.
Shivani, Anis The Fifth Lash and Other Stories 313pp C&R Press (Chattanooga IN) US$ 18.95.
—– “Love in a Time of Communication” Bengal Lights [1] Autumn 2012 pp45-55.
Translations
Afreen, Ishrat “A Voice of Her Own: A Translation of Ishrat Afreen’s Poems” Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies: 4[3] trans from Urdu by Sobia Khan, Telmeez Burnay pp96-102.
Faiz, Faiz Ahmed The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Fai trans from Urdu by Naomi Lazard Rs295 [first pub Princeton Univ Press 1987].
Hashmi, Ali Madeeh The Way It Was: Faiz Ahmed Faiz: His Life, His Poems HarperCollins (New Delhi), 356pp [biography by Faiz’s grandson+poems trans from Urdu by Shoaib Hashmi].
Husain, Intizar Basti trans from Urdu Frances W. Pritchett introd Asif Farrukhi 258pp New York Review Classics (New York) US$15.95 [first pub 1979, intro MU Memon Pnow available free online [first pub introd M.U. Memon, Harper Collins (New Delhi) 1987, this version with “background material” now available as free download <http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/basti/index.html>].
—– Circle and Other Stories trans from Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil 154pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs400 [first pub Rupa New Delhi 2004].
Hussein, Aamer “Knotted Tongue” Asymptote trans from Urdu by Aamer Hussein and Carole Smith Oct <http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Fiction&id=32&curr_index=1&curPage=archive>.
Manto, Sadaat Hasan Manto: Selected Stories trans from Urdu by Aatish Taseer 136pp Random House (New Delhi) Rs295.
Letters and Autobiography
Afridi, Humera “A Gentle Madness” Granta: New Writing: Essays and Memoirs 4 Apr http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/A-Gentle-Madness.
Bano, Zareen Kim’s Gun and Eye 208pp self-pub.
Dawood, Atiya Images in a Mirror 232pp trans from the Urdu by Amina Azfar Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs895 [see
Iqbal, Javed Encounters with Destiny: Autobiographical Reflections trans from Urdu Hafeez Malik and Nasira Iqbal 350pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) [first pub Oxford Univ Press USA 2006].
Jamal, Mahmood ed Gandhi’s Urdu Letters: The Maulana and the Mahatma: 23pp IdeaIndia.com trans from the Urdu by Mahmood Jamal [2011].
Kureishi, Hanif “The Art of Distraction” New York Times: Sunday Review (New York) 18 Feb http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opinion/sunday/the-art-of-distraction.html?_r=2&sq=Hanif%20Kureishi&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=all [autobiographical essay].
Mahmud, Salma The Wings of Time 152pp Har-Anand Publications (New Delhi) Rs395.
Princess Shahrbano Begam of Pataudi A Story of Days Gone By: A Translation of ‘Biti Kahani’: An Autobiography of Princess Shahr Bano Begam of Pataudi trans from Urdu, ed and introd Tahera Aftab xiv+253pp Oxford Univ Press Rs825.
Raja, Major General Khadim A Stranger in My Own Country East Pakistan, 1969–1971 350pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs695.
Saeed, Fouzia Working with Sharks: Countering Sexual Harassment in Pakistan 438pp Sanjh Publications (Lahore) Rs795.
Sehgal, Ikram Escape from Oblivion: The Story of Pakistani Prisoner of War in India 164pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs695.
Anthologies
After the Rain: Short Stories from the SAARC Region ed Ayesha Zee Khan fwd Frank Huzur 142pp Fraternity of Literature & Culture (Lahore) Rs295 [includes Pakistanis Ayesha Zee Khan, Arbab Daud, Kiran B. Ahmed].
Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out ed Pervez Hoodbhoy pref John Polyani 444pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1395.
The Call of the Trumpet: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry trans from Chinese and introd Ahmed Ali 197pp Embassy of Pakistan, Beijing.
Festival Maniza Naqvi 172pp Sheherzade (Karachi) Rs250.
The Illustrated Beloved City: Writings on Lahore Bapsi Sidhwa 416 pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs2200.
Love, Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women Ayesha Mattu, Nura Maznavi 256pp Soft Skull Press US$15.95.
Manto Centenary 1912-2012 Ayesha Jalal and Nusrat Jalal eds 204pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs2000.
We Owe an Apology to Bangladesh ed Ahmed Salim 254pp Shahitya Prakash 87 Purana (Dhaka) Takas500 [includes essays by I.A Rahman, Tariq Rahman, Zahid Husain, and other Pakistani journalists].
Criticism
General Studies
“Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers: Pakistan” Muneeza Shamsie Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures General ed Suad Joseph Brill Online http://brillonline.nl/entries/encyclopedia-of-women-and-islamic-cultures/arts-fiction-and-fiction-writers-pakistan-COM_001408?s.num=7.
“Blind Faith: Women at War in Khuda Kay Liye and Escape from Taliban” Pascal Zinck Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies 4[2] pp123-40.
Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing eds Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin 241pp Routledge (Abingdon) £85.
“English Language” Tariq Rahman Oxford Companion to Pakistani History pp154-156 [See
“English Literature” Muneeza Shamsie Oxford Companion to Pakistani History pp156-161[see
“The Ghazal: Expressing the Inexpressible” Shadab Zeest Contemporary World Literature 1 October 20 http://contemporaryworldliterature.com/blog/essays/the-ghazal-expressing-the-inexpressible-by-shadab-zeest-hashmi/ [2010].
Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies Anis Shivani 272pp Texas Review Press/Texas A&M Consortium (Huntsville Tx) US$24.95 [2011, critical essays].
“Muslim Life Writing” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 16 Sept p3.
“The Notes of a New Harp: Re-Carving the Self in Contemporary Pakistani Poetry in English” Asma Mansoor Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies 4(1) pp14-38.
“South Asian Writing Resistance in Wartime London (1940-1942” Rehana Ahmed Wasafiri 70 Summer pp17-24 [refs to Ahmed Ali, Sajjad Zaheer, Progressive Writers].
“The Revival of the Qasida Form” Shadab Zeest Hashmi Contemporary World Literature 8 May <http://contemporaryworldliterature.com/blog/essays/the-qasida-by-shadab-zeest-hashmi/
Salman Rushdie’s Cities: Reconfigurational Politics and the Contemporary Urban Imagination Vassilena Parashkevova 232pp Continuum US$112.95 [includes references to Karachi].
Theatrics Zia Mohyeddin [see
“Twin Towers” Haris Khalique The Friday Times: 27Jul-Aug2 pp26-27 [on reading Manto and Meeraji].
“Who’s Who: South Asian Writers Making Waves” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 24 Jun pp2-3.
Studies on Individual Writers
Ahmad, Jamil “Review: The Wandering Falcon” Bruce King Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 [3] Jul pp325-6.
Ahmed, Akbar “Akbar Ahmed: A Poet with Great Vision” Ishtiaq Ahmed Daily Times (Lahore) Jan 29 p (op-ed) [review of Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse]
Ali, Tariq “A Talk with Tariq Ali” Ali Madeeh Hashmi The Friday Times Jul 13-19 pp20-21.
Aslam Khan, Uzma “If This Were a Civilized Land Faith Would Be Private” Aftab Awais The Friday Times (Lahore) Oct 26-Nov1 pp20-21 [interview].
Ghose, Zulfikar “Serious Writers Have Dismissed What’s Demanded by the Market” Ali Madeeh Hashmi The Friday Times Aug3-9 pp20-21 [interview].
Khalique, Harris “Essay: The Portrait Artist: the Poetry of Harris Khalique in Retrospect” Bilal Tanweer Dawn B&A (Karachi) 23 Sept [analysis].
Kureishi, Hanif “I Like What I Write” Razestha Sethna Dawn B&A (Karachi) Feb19 pp1 [Interview of Hanif Kureishi].
—– “Something to Tell You: Spaces for Dialogue in Postcolonial London” Claire Chambers and Nukbah Langah Cereberations [1] http://www.cerebration.org/claireandnukbah.html.
—– “Luke, Catriona “You Weren’t Alone” The Friday Times (Lahore) Sept 7-13 pp28-29 [essay on Dreaming and Scheming and My Ear at His Heart].
Manto, Saadat Hasan “The Storyteller: Saadat Hasan Manto: May 11 1912-6 May” Dawn Books & Authors Supplement pp1-8; “Manto 1912-1955: A Hundred Years of Anguish” Herald May [articles by various authors]; The News International: Encore Supplement Special Issue “The Short Story of Manto (1912-2012)” 6 May [special issues on Manto].
Meeraji (Mohammed Sanaullah Dar) “Meeraji (1912-1949)” Dawn Books& Authors Supplement 4 Nov pp1-8 [special issue on Meeraji’s centenaray]
Mueenuddin, Daniyal “Review: Other Rooms Other Wonders” Claire Chambers Wasafiri: 65 Spring pp102-03 [2011].
Farooki, Roopa “Of Love and Other Demons” Hamna Zubair Dawn B&A (Karachi) 9 Jul pp4 [review of The Flying Man].
Farooqi, Musharraf Ali “The Writer’s Challenges” Mohsin Siddique Herald (Karachi) May pp108; “Home and the Word” Ali Madeeh Hashmi The Friday Time Jun 29-Jul 3 pp20-21 [Interviews].
—– “A Writer’s Passion: A Conversation with Musharraf Ali Farooqi”; “Demons Within Gods” Afia Aslam In Papercuts [9] Spring http://www.desiwriterslounge.net/papercuts/ [interview+review of Between Clay and Dust].
—– “With Souls and Elbows” Faiza Sultan Khan Caravan 4 [5] May http://www.caravanmagazine.in/Story/1391/With-Souls-and-Elbows.html; “The Wrestler and the Courtesan” Mohsin Siddiqui Herald (Karachi) May p125; “Time’s Winged Chariot Hurrying Near” Nadir Hasan Dawn B&A (Karachi) 10 Jun p1-2; ‘The Dance of Time’ Muneeza Shamsie Newsline (Karachi) Jun pp100-101 [reviews of Between Clay and Dust].
—– “From Underground to Overground” Mahvesh Murad Dawn B&A (Karachi) 23 Sept pp1-2 [review of Rabbit Rap+interview].
Fazli, Shahryar “Barbarism in Cultured Soil: Rushdie’s Great Pakistani Novel” Los Angeles Review of Books http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1182&fulltext=1 Nov 23 [on Rushdie’s Shame].
Hanif, Mohammed “Reviews: Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid; Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif” Humaira Saeed Wasafiri 71 Autumn pp91-92.
Hamid, Mohsin “Reviews: Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif” [see this section,
—– “Possessed by Whiteness: Interracial Affiliations and Racial Melancholia in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist” Delphine Munosa Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 [4] 396-405.
Hussein, Aamer “I Don’t Write Statements in My Fiction” Peerzada Salman Dawn: Metro (Karachi) 12 Dec p17 [Interview].
—– “The Cloud Messenger: A Book Review” Soonha Abro Dawn.com Blog http://beta.dawn.com/news/773205/the-cloud-messenger-a-book-review
Ismail, Aquila “The Other Side of the Story” Batool Zehra Express Tribune Feb 26; “When Countries Breakup” SG Jilanee Dawn B&A May 13 pp4 [reviews of Martyrs and Marigolds].
Khalique, Harris “The Portrait Artist: The Poetry of Harris Khalique in Retrospect” Bilal Tanweer Dawn B&A, (Karachi) 22 Sept pp3-4 [analysis of Khalique’s Urdu and English poetry].
Khwaja, Waqas “The Marketplace of Voices” Poetry and Voice eds Stephanie Norgate and Ellie Paddington, Cambridge Scholars Publishers (Newcastle) 114—36.
—– “What a Difference a Word Makes: A Conversation with Pakistani Poet and Translator, Waqas Khwaja” Kimberley Nagi Wild River Review Oct http://www.wildriverreview.com/Waqas-Khwaja/Word-Difference/Poet-Translator/October-2012.
Naqvi, H.M. “Cities in the Twilight Zone: H.M. Naqvi on Karachi” India Today (New Delhi) 20 Aug http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/h.m.-naqvi-independence-day-special-karachi-in-the-twilight-zone/1/212720.html
—– “An Interview with H.M. Naqvi” Mohammed Avoes Wasafiri 27[2] Autumn pp40-45.
—– Khalid, Nauman “Reviews: Home Boy” Wasafiri 72[4] Winter 97-98.
—– “We Are the Glue Keeping Civilization Together”: Post-Orientalism and Counter-Orientalism in H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy” Birte Heidemann Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 [3] Special Issue: “Orientalism and Terrorism: Theory, Text, and Images after 9/11” pp289-98.
Salman, Ayesha “From a Pakistani Poet, a Debut Novel” Mansoor Murad Dawn B&A (Karachi) 30 May p4 [review of Blue Dust].
Shamsie, Kamila “Kamila Shamsie on Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Pitfalls of Plotting” Guardian, (London) 23 Mar http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/23/kamila-shamsie-author-pakistan-research [on research for her next novel).
—– “The Storytellers of Empire” Guernica Magazine Feb http://www.guernicamag.com/features/3458/shamsie_02_01_2012/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+guernica%2Fcontent+%28Guernica+%2F+Content%29 [autobiographical essay on Burnt Shadows, John Hersey and American fiction].
Shamsie, Muneeza “And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women; African Women Playwrights; Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Scrip” Jeana DelRosso Feminist Formations 24 [1] pp 209-15 [Review].
—– “Chatting with Muneeza Shamsie” Sana Hussain The Missing Slate Summer 2012 pp 24-29 <http://themissingslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/issue/issue_6.pdf> [interview on Pakistani English Literature, see
Sidhwa, Bapsi “Writing in English: A Subcontinental Writer’s Perspective” Le Simplegadi X [10] pp11-28 http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/wp-ontent/uploads/2012/Simplegadi_10_12_Sidhwa.pdf.
Non-fiction
Abdullah, Zahid Disabled by Society 179pp Ushba Publishing (Karachi) Rs800.
Ahmed, Ishtiaq The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts 640pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs2100.
Ahmed, Manan Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination fwd Amitava Kumar 286pp Just World Publishing (Charlottesville Va) £23.95
Ali, Khalid The Ali Brothers: The Life and Times of Maulana Mohammed Ali and Shaukat Ali 920 pp Royal Book Company (Karachi) Rs2500
Abdul Hamid Akhund and Nasreen Askari Tale of the Tile: The Ceramic Traditions of Pakistan: 400pp+illustrations Mohatta Palace Museum (Karachi) Rs6000 [art history].
Ali, Rabia Umar Empire in Retreat: The Story of India’s Partition 2042pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs725.
Ali, Yasmeen Aftab Media and Media Laws in Pakistan Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs1200.
Alvi, Sajjida Sultan Perspectives on Mughal India: Rulers, Historians, Ulama and Sufis 277pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs850.
Amin-Khan, Tariq Geneology of the Post-Colonial State in India and Pakistan 250pp Vanguard Rs995.
Asmi, Saleem Saleem Asmi: Interviews-Articles-Reviews compiled by S. M. Shahid 194pp Paramount Publishing (Karachi) Rs500.
Azhar-Hewitt, Farida The Other Side of Silence: The Lives of Women in the Karakorum Mountains 214pp iUniverse (Bloomington) US$18.95.
Butt, Usama and Julian Schofield eds Pakistan: The US, Geopolitics and Grand Strategies 221pp Pluto Press (London) Rs600.
Chawla, Mohammed Iqbal Wavell and the Dying Days of the Raj 350pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs725.
Cowasjee, Ardeshir Vintage Cowasjee: A Selection of Writings from Dawn 1984-2011 fwd Amina Jillani 800pp Sama (Karachi) Rs1650.
Haider, Salahuddin A Bright Dream in Prison: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Personality and Works 140pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs300.
Hirji, Zulfikar ed Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims 275pp IB Tauris (London) £29.50 [essays].
Husain, Abrar Independence of Judiciary and Judicial Crisis 327pp Sindh Balochistan Law Reports (Karachi) Rs1200.
Husain, Ali Akbar Scent in the Islamic Garden: Second Edition: A Study in Literary Sources in Persian and Urdu introd William Dalyrmple 350pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs2000 [first pub as Scent in an Islamic Garden: A Study of Deccani Urdu Literary Sources Oxford Univ Press 2000].
Iqbal, Afzal Reflections on Rumi 157pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs450.
Iqbal, Javed A Collection of Preserved Letters 336pp Sang-e-Meel Publications (Lahore) Rs795.
Iqtidar, Humera Secularizing Islamists? Jama’at-e-Islami and Jama’at ud Da’wa in Urban Pakistan 232pp Univ Chicago Press (Chicago) US$40.
Kadri, Sadakat Heaven on Earth: A Journey through Shari’a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World 372pp Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York) US$28.
Khan, Feroz Hassan Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb 552pp Stanford Univ Press US $29.95.
Khan, Naveeda “Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan” 262pp Duke Univ Press (Durham NV) US$23.95
Masud, Khwaja Lessons of My Life: Islam and the Spirit of Revolution 120pp ILQA Publications (Lahore) Rs245.
Qadir, Shaukat Operation Geronimo: The Betrayal and Execution of Osama Bin Laden and Its Aftermath self-pub 92pp 650 KB Amazon Media (Kindle Edition) £5.70.
Qureshi, Mohammed Abdulhai Muslim Rule in Spain, Muslim Rule in India: Memories of Two Failures: 86pp Author UK (Milton Keynes) £4.98 [2011].
Rabbani, Raza A Biography of Pakistani Federalism: Unity in Diversity 305pp Leo Books (Islamabad) Rs1000.
Rahim, Talat Down Matrimonial Lane: 30 Resilient Women 229pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs895.
Rahman, Taimur The Class Structure of Pakistan 332pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs995.
Ramzi, Shahnaz Food Prints: An Epicurean Voyage through Pakistan 244pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs2200.
Rana, Junaid Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora 240pp Duke University Press (Durham NC) US$23.95 [2011].
Rashid, Ahmed Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan 256pp Viking (New York) US$26.95.
Samad, Yunas The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and the People—the Struggle for Control 288pp C. Hurst (London) [2011].
Shah, Mowhaid Hussain Will and Skill 696pp Jamhoori Publications (Lahore) np [essays on contemporary issues].
Shaikh, Riaz Back from the Brink: India Pakistan Ties Revisited 426pp Ushba Publishing (Karachi) Rs1100.
Sial, Safdar and Muhammead Amir Rana Radicalization in Pakistan 160pp Narratives Publications (Islamabad) Rs1000.
Siddiqi, Farhan Hanif The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements 160pp Taylor and Francis (London & New York) US $114
Yousufzai, Hassan M. and Ali Gohar Understanding Pukhtoon Jirga: An Indigenous Way of Peace-Building and More 112 pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs400.
Yunus, Mohammed Bhutto and the Breakup of Pakistan 140pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs 595.
Journals
Annual of Urdu Studies ed Muhammed Umar Memon University Wisconsin, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia,1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
The Critical Muslim eds Sardar, Ziauddin, and Robin Yassin-Kassab Muslim Institute & C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 41 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PL subs UK £50; Europe £65; Rest of the World £75.
Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies ed Masood Raja Department of English, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle £31130 Denton, TX 76203-5017 subs single US$29; two issues US$55; download single issue US$6; email:
Pakistan Perspectives: Biannual Research Journal ed Sabiha Hasan Pakistan Study Centre Univ of Karachi Hasan P.O. Box 8450 Karachi 725270 subs individual Rs350, US$30; annual Rs500 US$60; airmail (for two issues) US$ 15 email
Special Issues
The Critical Muslim 04: Pakistan? eds Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab 256pp Oxford Univ Press No.38, Sector 15, Korangi Industrial Area PO Box 8214, Karachi-74900, Pakistan Rs 595 [first pub C. Hurst, see
Vallum: New International Poetics 9[1]: Poets from Pakistan guest eds Blaine Marchand and Ilona Yusuf eds Joshua Auerbach & Eleni Zisimatos Vallum Society for Arts & Letters Education P.O. Box 598, Victoria Station Montreal, Quebec H3Z 2Y6, Canada email:
Internet Sites
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Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures <http://www.brill.com/encyclopedia-women-islamic-cultures-set-volumes-1-6>.
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