Sharjah Turns New Pages

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

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Into the Desert…

Desert 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

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