Pakistan Fiction

It’s the last few days of an amazing trip to Pakistan, and Amina finds it hard to leave the sights, the shops, and most of all, her family. As she heads back to Greendale to start seventh grade, the experience has changed her, and she’s eager to share it with her friends. At home, though, Amina discovers her friends don’t seem interested in hearing about her trip. With everyone growing in different directions, Amina wonders where she belongs - especially after her school presentation on Malala goes sideways, leaving her feeling like nobody understands both her worlds.

In New Jersey, Parviz Amritzar is mourning for his family - killed by a US airstrike back in Pakistan - and vowing revenge against his adoptive country. He devises a plan to shoot down Air Force One and gets a lucky break when he reaches a terrorist contact who knows how he can obtain a surface-to-air missile from the Russians. When the CIA picks up on the rumors of this plot, they call on Malko Linge to carefully observe the would-be terrorist. But as soon as Malko thinks he has a handle on the situation, everything changes.

L'amore impossibile tra Rima e Nael, lei cristiana e lui musulmano, nella Damasco divisa dalla guerra. La rabbia di Razia, medico in un ospedale nel Sud del Pakistan, che opera pazienti sfregiate dagli uomini. L'arresto di Eman, che nel suo blog ha difeso per anni i diritti delle donne saudite, messa a tacere proprio quando la monarchia concede loro di guidare l'auto. Il gesto indimenticabile di Vida, la ragazza che in via Enghelab, via della Rivoluzione, a Teheran, si toglie il velo bianco e lo sventola come una bandiera: non per la resa, ma per la guerra.

These poems are English interpretations of poems originally written in Urdu and Punjabi. Interpretations are not translations. The interpretations capture the essence of the poem rather than the form and specifics of the original language.