By Dr Irfan Zafar

Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. He attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. Bennett was made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1987. He was also awarded a D Litt by the University of Leeds in 1990 and an honorary doctorate from […]

Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-American author and journalist whose books, essays and journalistic career span more than four decades. He graduated from the independent Leys School in Cambridge and then went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. Christopher Hitchens was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and died after a long and brave struggle with […]

Daron Acemoglu is the Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2005, he received the John Bates Clark Medal, which is awarded to economists judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. James Robinson is a political scientist and an economist and is the David […]

It is said that if you want the destruction of whatever morality you are bestowed with, the easiest and the fastest way is to watch a three-hour long Pashto film. At a younger age, I had the misfortune of making that mistake when the only thing that mattered was having that ‘extra’ adventure. Since then, […]

Tussi Lahore Ton Ho? (Are You From Lahore?) Author: Saurabh Khanna 112 pages Publisher: E U Sarl, 2012 Saurabh Khanna was born in Delhi and was brought up by parents who traced their origins to Chiniot in Punjab. He works for an investment bank and has done his MBA from the Indian School of Business, […]

Shoaib Akhtar, nicknamed ‘the Rawalpindi Express’, is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler who is regarded as the fastest bowler in the history of cricket — bowling at a speed of 161.3 km/h (100.2 mph). Controversially Yours: An Autobiography has been written by him after his retirement from international cricket, and is a true […]

Dr Iqbal Syed Hussain is the author of eight books and hundreds of articles that regularly appear in the European, Middle Eastern and Pakistani media. His works include Islam and Western Civilisations, Terrorism in Action, The Qur’an and Modernism, Islam and the Clash of Civilisations, Pakistan in Crises and Tears for Pakistan. His book, The […]

Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist known for her debut novel, The Help. She is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing. The novel climbed the bestseller charts, eventually selling five million copies, winning BookBrowse’s Readers Award and spending more than 100 weeks on The New York […]

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of Southern literature in the US. His novel, As I Lay Dying, published in 1930, which he claimed to have written in six weeks without changing a […]

My Name Is Red is a Turkish novel published in 1998 by Nobel Laureate author Orhan Pamuk. Its English translation established Pamuk’s international reputation and contributed to his winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. The novel blends mystery, romance, and philosophical puzzles, illustrating the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murat III during nine […]