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A personal note on Leonard Cohen and his voice. By MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. When I first heard “I am your man..” I knew my ears were hearing something completely new. It easily found its deep way down to my soul’s longing. More than lyrics, what penetrated was the voice, and the almost arhythmic rendering. Who owns this magical, mesmerising voice? Could
‘Committed’ and ‘multi-pronged.’ The adjectives fit well with Dr Farid Esack, his oeuvre, and academic as well as activist engagements. He published Quran, Liberation and Pluralism in 1997; the work was noted for its academic solemnity as well as earnestness to take the message of the divine text to all it matters. In 1999, his more popular On Being a
~ Poetry | Occasional poems from Floating on a River series ~ You hardly need a weapon to finish me and my story. Eyes are enough I am dead in the grace of your smile. Nothing is as deep as your eyes. Soulful, weeping and luminous. Endless like our sea and painful as poison. I died the day you
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD visits the Islamic Art Museum Malaysia at Kuala Lumpur on international museum day, walks through the galleries and meets curators. Qatar based The Peninsula newspaper carried this write-up; photographs by MN. Set in the middle of a lush greenish ambiance, a few hundred meters away from Kuala Lumpur old railway station and very close to the majestic national mosque
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD meets a Pakistani mystic refugee at a mosque in Kotabharu, Malaysia. From very far, you could make it out that he is an aged Pathan. Clad in a green T-shirt and lunki, he wore a white skull cap. His smile spoke of the painful burdens his soul has managed to traverse through, and absorb, in a graceful way,