Given that he’s one of those rare, respected literary intelligentsia who can actually make a comfortable living from writing novels alone, I was surprised to learn that Hamid has recently started a ...

WASHINGTON, USA - AUGUST 17: (L-R) Professor Halil Berktay, Burhanettin Duran, Kilic Kanat, Shadi Hamid, and Kadir Ustun attend in a panel called "The July 15 Failed Coup Attempt: Implications for U.S ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every writer, like every immigrant, lives in an imaginary homeland, a dream-world — the one attempts to realise ...

A man wakes to find himself transformed. He looks around, seeking his bearings as he tries to come to terms with what has happened to him overnight, perhaps after uneasy dreams. He looks at his hand, ...

Hamid's second book (after Moth \t\t Smoke) is an intelligent and absorbing 9/11 novel, written from the \t\t perspective of Changez, a young Pakistani whose sympathies, despite his fervid \t\t ...

Initial alarm over the seemingly childish premise of Aijaz Khan’s Hamid – a fatherless Kashmiri boy strikes up a connection with a Central Reserve Police Force jawan whom he believes to be God – ...

Aijaz Khan’s Hamid is the story of eight-year-old Hamid (Talha Arshad Reshi), who is just beginning to learn about Allah and his number — 786, even as there is continuous unrest in his hometown ...

Novels of strange, sudden physical transformations are a fascinating subgenre — from “The Metamorphosis,” Kafka’s 1915 novella in which Gregor Samsa famously wakes up as a cockroach, all the way to A.

'Both Abdul Hamid and the enemy tank place each other in their sights and shoot. Both shells hit their targets. There is a loud blast, fire and smoke.' 'Abdul Hamid is dead. He has destroyed a total ...