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Maajed Maajed said: " Despite its deceptively simple and brilliant prose, this book left me slightly disappointed. The immigrant experience, though beautifully rendered, too often leans on cliché—and for a topic that demands such complexity, the lack of deeper insight fee ...more "

 
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Naveed Qazi
“How long can I mold my identity in the changing world around me? Sometimes, I feel that I am a refugee in exile whose life has been smashed into pieces by many ill facets of ghastly wars.”
Naveed Qazi, The Trader of War Stories

Arundhati Roy
“The division in opinion on the use of the term (i.e - fascism) comes down to whether you believe that fascism became fascism only after a continent was destroyed and millions of people were exterminated in gas chambers, or whether you believe that fascism is an ideology that led to those high crimes - that can lead to those crimes - and that those who subscribe to it are fascists.”
Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

Naveed Qazi
“At one point in time, I had thought that my writing was a product of my circumstances and the uncertainty around me. There was a human vulnerability in combat journalism, wherever I was reporting on the continuous war. But it also made me love the poetic beauty in words.”
Naveed Qazi, The Trader of War Stories

Arundhati Roy
“Hope lies in texts that can accommodate and keep alive our intricacy, our complexity, and our density against the onslaught of the terrifying, sweeping simplifications of fascism.”
Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

Yuval Noah Harari
“It is often said that God helps those who help themselves. This is a roundabout way of saying that God doesn’t exist, but if our belief in Him inspires us to do something ourselves – it helps.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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