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Tehmina Khan

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Tehmina Khan was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and holds degrees from Kinnaird College, Lahore, and Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis. She has her home in Toronto, where she lives with her husband, two children, and dog, Luna. She is currently working on retelling seven stories from 1001 Nights. Her collection of short stories, Things She Could Never have, was published by Mawenzi House in the fall of 2017.

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Under the Tamarind Tree

by Nigar Alam (Goodreads Author)

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A Year in Marrakesh

by Peter Mayne

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The Sufis

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“What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter

tags: children, motherhood, parenting

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“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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“A cultural Muslim: a term my father gave me when I asked him the same question. I used it now, not fully knowing what it meant, more as an out than as an honest answer to Kareem’s question. I had learnt from my experience with my father that the term meant more than just a lax approach to religion: it contained political and historical allegiance to other Muslims.”
― Aatish Taseer, Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands

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