Published by Bloomsbury, 2020, 366 pages. “This was what it meant to be exiled and disinherited—to straddle closed borders, never whole anywhere.” “I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet.” Nahr, a Palestinian woman, sits in …
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Abid Hasan Safrani—Netaji’s Comrade-in-Arms: Compiled by Ismat Mehdi and Shehbaz Safrani
Published by Orient BlackSwan, 2023, 148 pages. “Abid Hasan Safrani...was a quiet revolutionary who kept himself out of the limelight even while being present at every vital scene and moment of the final phase of our freedom struggle...”—Sugata Bose, Foreword First of all, full disclosure: Ismat Mehdi is my aunt. So this book is personal …
Cycling Across the Middle East: An Interview with Rebecca Lowe
Rebecca Lowe is a British journalist specializing in the Middle East and human rights. Her book, The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East (2022), was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2023. Rebecca has written for the BBC, The Guardian, The Times, …
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