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Conveying somber mood over his non-participation this year, MUHAMMED NOUSHAD remembers the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair and the encounters he had with the people and books during the fair, as the event this year has ended last week. In a November midnight in 2011, Ali Ahsan and I landed in Sharjah Airport, to attend the 30th Sharjah International Book
» Read moreDesert is an ever-alluring captivation. A note on a desert ride in the UAE. Life in its completeness; you can see it only in a desert, wrote Muhammed Asad, the legendary scholar and one of the most gifted travelers ever lived. To remember this now, I have not reached any real deep desert; just a few miles off-road, somewhere between
» Read moreIn the month of Ramadan, we, the editorial team at Other Books set off on a road that we haven’t known before: a book promotion trip from Calicut to Thiruvananthapuram, connecting individuals, institutions, organisations and common people. The idea was simple: meet our readers, friends, well-wishers, authors, translators, community leaders, research scholars, activists, imams and common public and talk to
» Read moreAnna Baltzer witnessing the Occupation A Jewish American woman visits Palestine and stays there for five months to document the ordinary hardships caused by the occupation. A review on her visual presentation “Life in Occupied Palestine” by M NOUSHAD Anna went to Palestine. To see and believe what she never wanted to see and believe. Being a Jewish American whose
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