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An Interview with Hisham Matar


An Interview with Hisham Matar
Concern. I think that was what I craved. A warm and steady and unchangeable concern. In a time of blood and tears, in a Libya full of bruise-checkered and urine-stained men, urgent with want and longing for relief, I was the ridiculous child craving for concern. And although I didn t think of it then in these terms, my self-pity had soured into self-loathing. Hisham Matar,
In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He has lived in the UK since 1986. His début novel, ....

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Like meditation, prayer too is above religion


Like meditation, prayer too is above religion
May 10, 2021, 7:39 AM IST
‘More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.’ – Alfred Tennyson
In these precarious times when life is on the precipice and so precarious that anything might happen at any moment, the beleaguered mankind turns to god and resorts to fervent prayers. A handful of hardcore atheists may snigger at this. But years ago I remember reading, ‘A prayer has nothing to do with theism or atheism. It’s even beyond spirituality. A prayer, like universal morality, is non-theistic. It’s a gesture of thankfulness, not necessarily directed towards anyone or any specific or esoteric object.’ Persian Sufi poet Fariduddin Attar called a prayer: ‘Nisdaa’boon khud-shafi’ – self-cleansing soliloquy. ....

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