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Trespassing: A Novel
A dazzling first novel of two lovers' struggle for freedom and passion in a city riven by turmoilBack in Karachi for his father's funeral, Daanish, a Pakistani student changed by his years at an American university, is entranced by the gazelle-eyed girl in the traditional dupatta who appears one day at the house of mourning. But the dupatta is deceptive: Dia is the modern daughter of a mother who, as the owner of a silk farm and factory, has achieved a degree of freedom rare among Pakistani women. It will take a handful of silkworms, fattened on mulberry leaves, to bring Daanish and Dia together. But their union will forever rupture the peace of two households and three families, destroying a stable present built on the repression of a bloody past. In this sweeping novel of modern Pakistan, Uzma Aslam Khan takes us deep into a world of radical contrasts, from the stifling demands of tradition and family to the daily oppression of routine political violence, from the gorgeous sensual vistas of the silk farms to the teeming streets of Karachi-stinking, crumbling, and corrupt. At once delicate and passionate, Trespassing introduces a new and powerful voice from a land we know too little about. .
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Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building
Ethnic violence is a widespread concern, but we know very little about the micro-mechanics of coexistence in the neighborhoods around the world where inter-group peace is maintained amidst civic strife. In this ethnographic study of a multi-ethnic, middle-class high-rise apartment building in Karachi, Pakistan, Laura A. Ring argues that peace is the product of a relentless daily labour, much of it carried out in the zenana, or women's space. Everyday rhythms of life in the building are shaped by gender, ethnic and rural/urban tensions, national culture, and competing interpretations of Islam.Women's exchanges between households - visiting, borrowing, helping - and management of male anger are forms of creative labor that regulate and make sense of ethnic differences. Linking psychological senses of 'tension' with anthropological views of the social significance of exchange, Ring argues that social-cultural tension is not so much resolved as borne and sustained by women's practices. Framed by a vivid and highly personal narrative of the author's interactions with her neighbors, her Pakistani in-laws, and other residents of the city, "Zenana" provides a rare glimpse into contemporary urban life in a Muslim society. Laura A. Ring received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago..
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Kartography
Crib mates, raised together from birth, narrator Raheen and her best friend Karim dream each other's dreams, finish each other's sentences, speak in a language of anagrams They share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi with parents who are also best friends, even once engaged to the other until they rematched in what they jokingly call "the fiancee swap." The night Karim's family migrates from Karachi to London, Raheen knows that "some of my tears were his tears and some of his tears were mine." But as distance and adolescence split them apart, Karim takes refuge in the rationality of maps while Raheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. What she uncovers takes us back two decades to reveal a story not just of a family's turbulent history but that of a country--and brings us forward to a grown-up Raheen and Karim drawn back to each other in the city that is their true home. (07/01/2003).
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Labour Movement in Pakistan Organization and Leadership in Karachi in the 1970s
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Divan al-Hallaj
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Orangi Pilot Project: Reminiscences and Reflections (Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks)
This is a collection of the articles and papers of Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan, the recipient of a number of national and international awards for his pioneering work in community development among the poor and downtrodden. Among his contributions, he is best-known for the brilliantly successful Orangi Pilot Project, Karachi, and the replication of the project that is helping whole communities to overcome problems relating to sanitation, housing, health, education, and employment..
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