Field of Muslim-Western relations as crucial today as everby A...

British Indian novelist and essayist, Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie. LOS ANGELES: Three decades after "Midnight's Children" catapulted Salman Rushdie to literary glory, a film of the novel feels like "closing the circle" after his dark years in hiding, ...

Supreme Court has refused to modify its order by which it directed that the ancestral house of renowned author Salman Rushdie and his family, situated in a posh locality in Delhi, be sold at present market price to another family. The apex court on ...

Roqia Sadat opposes the appointment of Osama Rushdie to the National Council for Human Rights Print Email The Administrative Judiciary Court postponed the case filed by Roqia Sadat, daughter of the late President Anwar Sadat, against the head of ...

Salman Rushdie & Deepa Mehta For the connoisseurs of South-Asian literature written in English, the book Midnight's Children has to rank near the very top. The novel which launched the career of Salman Rushdie in 1981 not only won the prestigious ...

Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The first death anniversary of Lollywood ghazal singer (late) Mehdi Hassan Khan is being observed today (Thursday), SAMAA reported. Mehdi Hassan was born on July 18, 1927 in a village called Luna, in the Indian state of ...

Ameera Fouad walks by candlelight through the streets of Egypt's Mediterranean city Candles have become a regular guest in many of Alexandria's houses photos: Mahmoud Mansi Over recent weeks, Egypt has been hit by electricity outages that have ...

From 2 to 11 this month (May 2013) the Cultural Palaces Organisation held its 22nd Annual Theatre Clubs Festival at El-Samer space (a makeshift marquee theatre pitched on the derelict site of the demolished El-Samer theatre), bringing to Cairo what ...

Many of Mira Nair's films (Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, the Namesake), reflect her dual Indian/American education, worldview and lifestyle, making her an obvious choice for an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

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