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This was Tariq Mehmood's first novel, published by Penguin Books in 1983, charting the experience of the second generation migrants to the UK. Set in the declining textile industry of the North of England, it is a raw story of pain and anger at the relentlessness of British racism, from the street to the state - a story of an unquenchable desire for justice, and reclaiming human dignity. A dignity that is wrapped around new questions of Identity, a crossroad between religion, language, history and resistance. It is a little big story, that talks to the extremities of social, political and literary issues today? Can stories of a generation be appropriated? How important is religion in identit...
Winner of the Frances Lincoln ‘Diverse Voices’ Children’s Book Award 2014Karen thinks she's not proper white.Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and somehow she feels as if she doesn't quite fit in... anywhere. So she's made a choice: she's switching sides.Karen’s going to convert to Islam to find her true identity.But Shamshad, her Hijab-wearing school mate, isn’t making things easy for her. What's her deal, anyway? Is Shamshad really any more proper than herself?Trouble and turmoil await in the old textile mill town of Boardhead East, as school battles are replaced by family troubles, name calling turns to physical confrontation and cataclysmic secrets are unv...
On bail for charges of suspected terrorism, Saleem decides he must travel back to Pakistan to visit his ailing mother. It is not a trip home exactly because home is a hard concept for a man who was exiled as a boy to England. Saleem's story moves between high comedy and tragedy.
Tariq Mehmood's Song of Gulzarina is a highly involving novel which looks at the life of Saleem Khan, who migrates from Pakistan to Bradford in the 1960s full of expectation and ends up contemplating suicide bombing in 21st-century Manchester. Mehmood deals with some of the really big questions of our time - race, class, oppression, empire and war - through the eyes of a failed father and lover who nonetheless gains our sympathies. - Lindsay German, Counterfire Mehmood is unswerving in his depiction of the racism that existed in Yorkshire mills in the 1970s as well as today's virulent Islamophobia. .... Mehmood's novel is polemical and full of black humour. ... Terror, both state-sponsored a...
In Finance Operations, author focuses on the processes and procedures that Finance Professionals must master to succeed. Learn how to: Get, Management, Operations, Auditors and above all Finance Team at one page. Improve communication with all those who come in contact. Evaluate your effectiveness as a Finance Professional and improve areas of weakness. Finance Professionals must also be analytical, self-disciplined, and patient, which the authorTariq Mehmoodlearned over more than forty years while being at work with some of worlds leading companies. Mehmood also focuses on cross-checking risk factors, reinforcing checks and balances, and applying strategies to minimize and eliminate errors. Whether you re an Management Executive, Financial Controller, Accounts Manager, Accountant or Accounts Assistant, youll learn ways to protect yourself, your company, and the customers you serve with practical approach of work in Finance Operations.
Collection Of Selected Ghalib'S Poetry With English Poetic Translation. This Book Also Contains Devnagri & Roman Translation Alongwith The Origional Urdu Script.
Karen thinks she's not really white. Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and she feels as if she doesn't fit in anywhere. So she's going to convert to Islam to find her true identity. But Shamshad, her Hijab-wearing schoolmate, isn't making things easy. As school battles are replaced by family troubles, name calling turns to physical confrontation, and cataclysmic secrets are unveiled.
One brother goes missing in action in Afghanistan, the other falls in love with an Afghan girl in England. Bitter divisions engulf an English town where young Muslims oppose the British army's presence in Afghanistan, whilst white youth condemn the Muslims as traitors. To the disgust of his white friends, 17-year-old Jake Marlesden, whose brother is missing in action in Afghanistan, is in love with Leila Khan, an Afghan. When Jake tries to find out what happened to his brother, neighbour turns against neighbour and lover against lover. Leila joins young Muslims protesting against the returning bodies of dead British soldiers, and Jake stands with the families of the soldiers. The lovers fall apart. But far off events, and sinister forces at home, bring the lovers together again in a journey in which they will not only discover themselves, but also heal the wounds of their families and friends. You're Not Here is the sequel to the award-winning novel You're Not Proper.
On economic policies, institutional reforms and human development in Pakistan.
A suicide bombing is being planned in Manchester, and Saleem Khan, an atheist, is carrying the bag In 1960s Bradford, having left his lover, his job as a teacher and his home in rural Pakistan, Saleem finds the north of England crackling with racism, and a job working in a mill on an all-Asian night-shift. And when the mills close down, he finds himself listlessly driving a taxi. Two decades later, a return to Pakistan leads Saleem down a dangerous path. Drawn into the turmoil of war, he meets Gulzarina, the woman whose life in a conflict without end finally allows him to make sense of his own actions. Moving, tense and thought-provoking, Tariq Mehmood explores the decisions and happenstances that determine a life within the malestom of our times, and what makes an unlikely fanatic.