I don’t remember the last time I wrote a book review on this book blog so I thought I’d do something novel and start the year with one! I read A History of Palestinian Resistance, by Dr Daud Abdullah, at the end of last year. I have to confess I’ve been struggling with reading since…
Category: Pakistani
The Fallacy of Democracy and a Free Press.
Democracy is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. The absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges. Democracies are also identified by their freedom of press and…
Have Muslim leaders betrayed Palestine?
I’ll be the first to admit that I know very little about global politics and even less about the politics of Muslim countries. The reasons for this are: a) I don’t necessarily trust Western sources on Muslim countries and b) I haven’t done the reading/work on countries other than Palestine and Pakistan. However, with the…
This Hybrid Reads 