“Discontent and Its Civilisations” by Mohsin Hamid
Let's go back to one of our favorite writers ever, this time with his only essay. Mohsin Hamid will allow us to enter his life, to really tell us what…
Haji Springer, a trip to Punjabi-gangsta
Haji Springer is a unique artist, able to mix the Californian gangsta-rap with the typical rhythms of the land of his ancestors: Punjabi. To you the judgment on a unique…
3 books to understand terrorism: Pakistan
3 books to better understand "how terrorism is born" through the words of some of the greatest writers of the "Islamic world". Third episode dedicated to Pakistan The series Given…
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Mira Nair
The cinematographic adaptation of Hamid's book is a film that makes people discuss and with many interesting themes behind it, a pearl often hidden from the eyes of the less…
Imran Khan, from cricket to the Pakistani government
Imran Khan, a figure who has been able to drag his country even beyond the cricket fields, thus consolidating his legend both on and off the pitch. Noble origins That…
Fateh, Punjabi hip hop
Fateh is one of the last representatives of Bhangra, a genre belonging to peasant Pakistan which, through various contaminations, is finally getting the space it deserves. Fateh Fateh belongs to…
The origins of the myth of Alexander the Great in the Persian-Islamic world
Alexander the Great, one of the most important men in the European world, becomes an almost prophetic figure in the Islamic world, so much so as to stimulate some of…
“Life of Pi” by Ang Lee
One of the most iconic films of 2012, a fable between religions, tigers and the sea. Ang Lee delights us with this masterpiece between the mystical and the adventure. Life…
The Persian cheetah
The Persian cheetah is one of the felines most closely linked to the imagination of Iran and India, a place where, under the Mughals, it became the favorite animal with…
The Asian lion
The Asian lion, formerly also present on the Mediterranean coasts, was the animal that most of all embodied the ideal of royalty and power, so much so that it was…
