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20 books perfect for travel – be it actual or armchair
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For this bookseller of Kabul, the pandemic was a blip in a country afflicted by long-term war
Shah Muhammed Rais of Shah M Book Company fame was inadvertently prepared for the pandemic. Inside Shah M Book Company, Kabul
“…But all this world is like a tale we hear
Men’s evil, and their glory, disappear.”
This is one of the 50,000 couplets that make up 10th century poet Abul Qasem Firdausi’s
Shah Nameh: The Book of Kings, a masterpiece in Persian that offers philosophical insight into almost every human dilemma. That, at least is the feeling of Afghanistan’s legendary bookseller Shah Muhammed Rais, a man whose own tumultuous biography is perhaps no less epic than Firdausi’s magnum opus.
Unshackling Kabul From Cliches: An Interview With Author Taran Khan
Taran N. Khan s âShadow City: A Woman Walks Kabulâ won the 2020 Tata Literature Live! first book award in the non-fiction category.
Afghan schoolgirls pause by the side of the road in Kabul, November 7, 2019. Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Chandran
Books16/Dec/2020
The very act of a woman walking alone is enough to make curious heads turn in most cities around the world. More often than not, whichever alley or main road it may be, the male gaze eventually makes itself known. For the walker, the act can be both infused with fear and and a sense of rebellion. It is for exactly that reason why Taran N. Khan’s book