Ghassan was 36 years old when he died along with niece in a bomb explosion planted in his car in Beirut on July 1972
In Beirut, on July 9, 1972 – Ghassan Kanafani climbed into his Austin 1100 car with his 17 year old niece Lamees, switched on the ignition and triggered a bomb planted by the Israeli Mossad. He and Lamees were killed
Women were at the forefront of the language marches, defying the pointed guns of the army and police
The Language movement is one of the most significant incidents in Bangladesh’s history because the movement was the first step towards getting an independent Bangladesh. The movement basically began establish Bangla, the mother tongue
The book has been edited by Tasleem Shakur and Shayer Ghafur, and published by ‘Knowledgists without Borders’
People’s perception stems from their experience while they are growing up in a location, may it be a village, thana, sun-divisional town or a city. One who grew up in Dhaka observed a paltry 200,000 inhabitants in
The people, who came to Sindh after One Unit, should not have citizenship rights, particularly the right to vote – Dr. Hamida Khuhro
[Translator’s note: This is a translation of renowned historian Dr. Hamida Khuhro’s comprehensive interview, originally published in the Sindhi magazine Nao Niapo, Karachi in May, 1986. The
Anthropologists are of the view that art is a creative capacity of humans and is culturally universal in all human cultures and societies. For the students of anthropology, art is a crucial form of cultural expression and communication and has existed in human societies since ancient times. Anthropologists point out that the early humans used
