MEMBER BLOG TAG: syria
| Sunday, May 3, 2009 9:21AM | | | | Same-Same, Different-Different | Tags: Nadeem Islam, Nam Le, Fuad Rifka, John Freeman, East-West, poet, translator, novels, short stories, Pakistan, Vietnam, Syria, Lebanon, international literature
| | | Pakistan: the world’s most dangerous country, read American papers.
America: the world’s most dangerous country, read Pakistani papers.
A Pakistani novelist, a Vietnamese short-story writer and a Syrian-born poet/translator spoke with eloquent hope about the idea that, scattered across the globe, we are more alike than we are different. But their conversation shined a spotlight on opposing worldviews that stem from varied cultural, historical and religious backgrounds.
Perhaps the clearest examples of those discordant views during the panel titled “East-West Storytelling” came from Nadeem Aslam, author most recently of The Wasted Vigil, set in Afghanistan, and also of Maps for Lost Lovers, about Pakistani emigrants living in England. He mentioned that he reads here in our newspapers about the most dangerous country... | | | | | |
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