Reminiscing About Ghosts: Rethinking the Decline of Literary Culture in Pakistan

Shahalam Tariq Sitting in a café in Beirut were three men; the literary critic Edward Said, the intellectual and activist Eqbal Ahmed and the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Edward Said recalled the event that when Eqbal Ahmed had stopped translating Faiz’s verses for Said, but for Said “as the night…

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