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blast to the past, it’s older art of the Chasing Stars gang
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Hey! I Am Open To Receive That I am in the Millionaire Program!!!.. Here...
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Happy Friday ⭐️ NajMahal Family 🥰 I am doing a mini vlog before Sunday because I have to share this with you! It was in me to do and I know this will inspire many of you!
This felt like a beautiful flow of water pouring out and I hope you recieve. Sharing one of my goals outloud is Big for me but I do understand its necessary because that pull I received means someone needs it too.
So here we go!
https://youtu.be/6b1ItuLA6wo?si=N2QNTlK3pgkpvtaw
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Perkembangan Film Indonesia Pada Masa Pandemi COVID-19
Pada tahun 2020, dunia ini dikejutkan dengan adanya pandemi COVID-19. Industri film Indonesia tak luput dari hantaman musibah seperti pandemi Covid-19. Bioskop ditutup, produksi terhenti, dan mimpi para sineas tertunda. Mahasiswa dan komunitas film, yang baru saja memulai langkah mereka di dunia perfilman, merasakan pahitnya kenyataan akibat terjadinya pandemi Covid-19.
Di tengah pandemi Covid-19 ini, sebuah harapan muncul. Platform digital menjadi penyelamat bagi pekerja Industri film, mahasiswa, dan komunitas film. Film-film diputar ditayangkan secara online, festival film diadakan secara virtual seperti menggunakan aplikasi media yang bisa melakukan live streaming, dan komunitas film saling menguatkan melalui webinar dan workshop online menggunakan aplikasi seperti zoom, google meet, discord, dan lainnya.
Pandemi COVID-19 menghadirkan banyak tantangan saat membuat film. Syuting menjadi sulit karena protokol kesehatan yang ketat, seperti menjaga jarak dan memakai masker. Pergerakan kru dan pemain film juga menjadi lebih sulit karena pembatasan mobilitas.
Selain itu, kondisi ekonomi yang tidak stabil menjadi hambatan. Para sineas harus kreatif untuk tetap menghasilkan film yang berkualitas meskipun gaji pekerja film telah dipotong secara signifikan dan anggaran film juga terbatas.
Para sineas Indonesia menunjukkan semangat mereka untuk terus berkarya meskipun banyak hambatan. Mereka memiliki banyak cara untuk beradaptasi dengan keadaan. Menggunakan teknologi digital untuk syuting, mengedit, dan membuat film dalam skala yang lebih kecil adalah contohnya.
Pemilihan tema dan genre film yang dipilih oleh para sineas juga menunjukkan kreativitas mereka. Banyak film yang mengangkat tema pandemi COVID-19 dengan berbagai sudut pandang dan pesan yang ingin disampaikan.
Kegigihan dan inovasi yang ditunjukkan oleh para sineas Indonesia selama pandemi menunjukkan bahwa industri film Indonesia memiliki daya tahan yang kuat, yang memberikan harapan bahwa industri ini akan terus berkembang di masa depan.
Pandemi tak hanya membawa dampak negatif kepada Industri film. Industri film juga belajar untuk beradaptasi dengan teknologi baru, melahirkan format film baru, dan menjangkau penonton yang lebih luas. Kehilangan dan kesulitan menjadi pelajaran berharga untuk menjadi lebih inovatif dan tangguh.
Seiring berjalannya waktu, bioskop mulai kembali terbuka dan roda industri film perlahan berputar dan berjalan. Film-film berkualitas mulai kembali menghiasi dan muncul di layar lebar. Masyarakat dan penikmat film menyambut dengan antusias kembalinya industri perfilman ini.
Namun, kebangkitan ini bukan berarti industri film telah kembali seperti ke masa sebelum pandemi Covid-19. Ada banyak sekali perubahan permanen yang terukir akibat badai rintangan yang telah berlalu. Platform digital yang berkembang pesat selama pandemi kini menjadi bagian tak terpisahkan dari industri film.
Film-film tidak hanya ditayangkan di bioskop tetapi juga ditayangkan di berbagai platform streaming online, hal ini membuka banyak peluang baru bagi para sineas untuk berkarya dan mendistribusikan film mereka kepada khalayak yang lebih luas.
Industri film Indonesia yang bangkit di era pasca pandemi covid-19 adalah bukti nyata dari ketekunan dan semangat para sineas untuk memulihkan industri film ini. Mereka terus membuat film-film berkualitas tinggi yang menghibur dan menginspirasi masyarakat meskipun banyak sekali tantangan dan hambatan yang harus dihadapi.
Generasi muda dengan ide-ide segar dan kreatif menjadi kekuatan utama industri film Indonesia. Mereka berani mengangkat tema-tema baru, menggunakan teknik penceritaan yang inovatif, dan tak ragu untuk bereksperimen dengan berbagai macam genre film.
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Hi, aku Najmah Munawaroh (najmahima). Saat ini sedang mengikuti #NovelWritingWorkshop oleh Bentang Pustaka dan Career Class. Aku saat ini sedang menulis novel berjudul "Sang Penjaga" yang akan dipost secara berkala di akun wattpadku. Teman-teman bisa langsung klik link di bio ya.
Selamat Membaca… Sangat menerima saran dan lain-lain. Mohon doanya yaa agar bisa menyelesaikan novelnya satu bulan kedepan 😇 teman-teman bisa membacanya di link ini ya
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From Fox News - Mother of New Jersey girl, 6, who died on school bus wants justice
Mother of New Jersey girl, 6, who died on school bus wants justice
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Perkenalkan, ini taakhi aku di asrama 🤗
Taakhi yang tiap paginya saling simakan hafalan, sampai terngantuk-ngantuk tapi gimana caranya mata kita tetap harus on. Karena yang satu baca, yang satu harus mendengarkan hihi.
Najmah, namanya!
Kami punya banyak sekali kesamaan kepribadian xixixi.
Terima kasih banyak Najmah telah menjadi taakhi terbaik aku, telah menjadi teman yang sangat memotivasi aku!
Semoga Allah selalu kuatkan sampai akhir bismillaah🤗
(Rabu, 10 Mei 2023)
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somali forenames BUT including "a"
Aadoobe Aahlaal Aashe Abbaan Aboow Absane Absiriye Abtid Afaa Afaal Afadawel Alane Alle Amal Araal Araatale Arane Arreyd Arshiye Ashin Asle Astoow Awaa Awaale Awaaso Awac Awad Awarkhan Aweloosax Awiil Awil Axle Aybdo Aydiye Aygande Ayow Ayte Ayteey Ayteyte Baalin Baalle Baan Baaran Baasoblaa Baayte Bacare Baddooda Badiid Badiltis Badsagab Badsane Bahab Bahin Balado Balayala Banaadan Baras Bare Baro Barsinle Baruumowe Baso Baxabad Baxle Beynahiye Bicarways Biidal Biigala Bilas Billayte Bisoblas Caad Caan Caane Caar Caardire Caas Caayaas Cabado Cabey Cadan Caddo Cajmadoon Cala Calaahdo Cale Callan Calle Caluub Canbad Care Carsafaa Casi Casle Caso Cawaan Cawaane Cawado Cawarl Cawarwac Cawayabo Cawaygaas Cawe Caweljiro Cawllised Cawsane Cayaasub Cayale Cayd Caydalan Caydi Caye Caygaan Caygare Cayo Cayreye Cays Chabbe Chane Cigad Cigiraale Ciglaado Colan Cosamad Culas Daad Daale Dale Dane Daraaxle Dare Darni Deeggan Dhaanyow Dhabe Dhaberac Dhabsiid Dhadeey Dhalaarra Dhale Dhalle Dhiidane Dhirbar Dhodan Diftimiya Digaagan Digane Diidan Diral Dubadoon Dubbaxoow Dugaad Dugafia Eraarood Erira Faagooge Faamac Faane Fane Fictirada Filabbad Fiyaal Foowhawe Furmays Gaabshaya Gaad Gaadsadi Gaajuusmo Gaal Gaalan Gaaloodo Gaan Gaanle Gaare Gaaso Gaban Gabbo Gabe Gabilax Gacawo Gado Gafaan Galesiye Galibac Galliilo Galo Gamesiye Gane Garreys Garsaad Geeran Goodane Goorraa Goosabooy Guharo Gurxad Habee Haddi Hadoor Hadsamawe Hakhaalad Halle Hamele Hawaab Hawl Hawra Haynahe Hibane Hodanjo Hodawaan Hoddiya Hufaalane Idane Idhawad Idmaare Idmad Ifaarsh Igaale Iglabeec Illaane Irbisan Iriya Jaahibis Jaan Jaare Jaarshe Jabastub Jabro Jaxaraxo Jaxayd Jayreya Jiraban Kaal Kaale Kaan Kaande Kaane Kaarad Kaifooso Kalo Kare Karni Karo Khab Khariya Kiibarl Koodaman Kooyabe Kullan Kulxaal Laad Lisraboon Maadle Maan Maaritin Maartiran Maaways Macteye Madeg Mado Magoos Magsax Mahabbo Mahi Makarwo Malasiise Male Mane Maraane Mare Markhaan Maroob Mashire Matad Matalinle Matosoon Matus Maybeyle Miladiid Misraane Mudale Naagsire Naale Naar Nabax Nabo Nabsan Nadoon Nage Nagsafia Nahad Nahidane Nahlan Najaxo Najmad Najmahe Najuun Nakaaxad Namane Name Narbar Narmow Nase Nashid Naso Nurtardo Obla Odale Odaro Odarsafia Odoodal Qaafle Qabaaruux Qabarira Qabin Qabshible Qalan Qalane Qalle Qalo Qanbicte Qande Qane Qaraago Qaroon Qarro Qaybeye Qayow Qays Qorlaaqo Qorlane Raalaane Raale Raalimow Raar Saadoole Saal Saan Saayteri Sadan Safic Sahabar Sahadoon Salan Salliya Salliye Sama Samaalbe Samaan Samago Samale Same Sameshin Sandees Sane Sanle Saxaad Saxnahac Saxsan Shad Shal Shane Sharmado Shodanjo Shodmale Subaane Subbarre Sugaame Sugbac Sugsad Suutimad Taabbo Taal Tabere Tadsane Talan Tarshiri Tawaal Tawke Tooddan Tubasobe Tukaa Turaayd Ugalaqlan Ugamaa Ugane Ugarooge Ugban Waad Waadoon Waafle Waale Waame Waaq Waashe Waaxaan Wacni Waddicte Wara Warax Warke Warmaan Warto Waygan Wayreye Ways Xaadhan Xaan Xaanado Xaanamays Xaane Xaarle Xaarni Xaashire Xaasiile Xabaal Xaban Xabe Xabro Xabyo Xaddo Xala Xalad Xale Xalow Xane Xare Xarle Xaroon Xarshodo Xayo Xays Xilaqale Yaad Yaaled Yaan Yaane Yaar Yaastus Yaawe Yabahi Yabande Yabeydale Yurxaa
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the gang being beach sexy and summer fun
@manasong @papatoshi @seventhumbralstar @lifeofaernthota @missgumiho @master-crafter
#ffxiv#ffxiv moonfire faire#moonfire faire#himbo wall#renaud-elouan cledwyn#nyx astra#popola pola#najmah lamonte#aernthota hymllihtwyn#david greens#toshinori okada
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#final fantasy xiv#ffxiv#najmah lamonte#jenova server#rp#ff14#final fantasy 14#oc#shadowbringers#ffxiv: shadowbringers
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today in final fantasy: the stars aligned and all five of us were able to party up
#ffxiv screenshots#Najmah Lamonte#Popola Pola#David Greens#Toshinori Okada#Renaud-Elouan Cledwyn#also we finished msq that last trial is so long omg
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this year has been a WILD ONE for art. jeez, you join a D&D group and suddenly you’re doing more art than you can POSSIBLY showcase on something like this because its A LOT from exactly July onwards
#ocs#liz#levesque#cynder#austin#sam#flint#bilgerat#admiral abbigull#najmah#craigory danthew#and guest starring zyrk. baph. tobias#mersel and primrose#jack draws
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You No Longer Locked Up! 8.25.23. the Intuitive Minute @NajaamPLee
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Happy Friday, NajMahal Family 🩷🩷 Today's Intuitive Minute is important for you! Check it out and let me know your thoughts in the comments 🙏🏽✨️ Have an awesome weekend!
#theintuitiveminute #fridaytarotreading #challenges #obstacles #seeyou
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i would bring up the eurocentrist racism inherent in the casting of najmah and aisha's actresses but y'all aren't ready for that so consider it said
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Ten Interesting Pakistani Novels
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Staples (Summary by Amazon)
Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means "star," suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman, Elaine, whose Islamic name is Nusrat, is also on her own. She waits out the war in Peshawar, Pakistan, teaching refugee children under the persimmon tree in her garden while her Afghan doctor husband runs a clinic in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Najmah's father had always assured her that the stars would take care of her, just as Nusrat's husband had promised that they would tell Nusrat where he was and that he was safe. As the two look to the skies for answers, their fates entwine. Najmah, seeking refuge and hoping to find her father and brother, begins the perilous journey through the mountains to cross the border into Pakistan. And Nusrat's persimmon-tree school awaits Najmah's arrival. Together, they both seek their way home.
2.) The Diary of a Social Butterfly by Moni Mohsin (Summary by Amazon)
This is the hugely entertaining journal of a socialite in Lahore. Pakistan may be making headlines - but Butterfly is set to conquer the world. 'Everyone knows me. All of Lahore, all of Karachi, all of Isloo - oho, baba, Islamabad - half of Dubai, half of London and all of Khan Market and all the nice, nice bearers in Imperial Hotel also...No ball, no party, no dinner, no coffee morning, no funeral, no GT - Get-Together, baba - is complete without me.' Meet Butterfly, Pakistan's most lovable, silly, socialite. An avid party-goer-inspired misspeller, and unwittingly acute observer of Pakistani high society, Butterfly is a woman like no other. In her world, SMS becomes S & M and people eat 'three tiara cakes' while shunning 'do number ka manual. 'What cheeks!' as she would say. As her country faces tribulations - from 9/11 to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto - Butterfly glides through her world, unfazed, untouched, and stopped short only by the chip in her manicure. Wicked, irreverent, and hugely entertaining, "The Diary of a Social Butterfly" gives you a delicious glimpse into the parallel universe of the have-musts.
3.) Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam (Summary by Amazon)
If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over England, they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. To Chanda’s family, however, the disgrace was unforgivable. Perhaps enough so as to warrant murder. As he explores the disappearance and its aftermath through the eyes of Jugnu’s worldly older brother, Shamas, and his devout wife, Kaukab, Nadeem Aslam creates a closely observed and affecting portrait of people whose traditions threaten to bury them alive. The result is a tour de force, intimate, affecting, tragic and suspenseful.
4.) A Season for Martyrs by Bina Shah (Summary by Amazon)
October 2007. Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returns home after eight years of exile to seek political office once more. Assigned to cover her controversial arrival is TV journalist Ali Sikandar, the estranged son of a wealthy landowner from the interior region of Sindh. While her presence ignites fierce protests and assassination attempts, Ali finds himself irrevocably drawn to the pro-democracy People’s Resistance Movement, a secret that sweeps him into the many contradictions of a country still struggling to embrace modernity. As Shah weaves together the centuries-old history of Ali’s feudal family and its connection to the Bhuttos, she brilliantly reveals a story at the crossroads of the personal and the political, a chronicle of one man’s desire to overcome extremity to find love, forgiveness, and even identity itself.
5.) Karachi, You’re Killing Me! by Saba Imtiaz (Summary by Amazon)
Ayesha is a twenty-something reporter in one of the world’s most dangerous cities. Her assignments range from showing up at bomb sites and picking her way through scattered body parts to interviewing her boss’s niece, the couture-cupcake designer. In between dicing with death and absurdity, Ayesha despairs over the likelihood of ever meeting a nice guy, someone like her old friend Saad, whose shoulder she cries on after every romantic misadventure. Her choices seem limited to narcissistic, adrenaline-chasing reporters who’ll do anything to get their next story—to the spoilt offspring of the Karachi elite who’ll do anything to cure their boredom. Her most pressing problem, however, is how to straighten her hair during chronic power outages. Karachi, You’re Killing Me! is Bridget Jones’s Diary meets The Diary of a Social Butterfly—a comedy of manners in a city with none.
6.) How It Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider (Summary by Amazon)
Dadi, the imperious matriarch of the Bandian family in Karachi, swears by the virtues of arranged marriage. All her ancestors including a dentally and optically challenged aunt have been perfectly well-served by such arrangements. But her grandchildren are harder to please. Haroon, the apple of her eye, has to suffer half a dozen candidates until he finds the perfect Shia-Syed girl of his dreams. But it is Zeba, his sister, who has the tougher time, as she is accosted by a bevy of suitors, including a potbellied cousin and a banker who reeks of sesame oil. Told by the witty, hawk-eyed Saleha, the precocious youngest sibling, this is a romantic, amusing and utterly delightful story about how marriages are made and unmade---not in heaven, but in the drawing room and over the phone.
7.) A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Shazaf Fatima Haider (Summary by Amazon)
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen. Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father's suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali's target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There's only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.
8.) Home Fire: A Novel by Kamila Shamise (Summary by Amazon)
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?
9.) She Loves Me, He Loves Me Not by Zeenat Mahal (Summary by Amazon)
Zoella didn’t know whether she was devastatingly happy or happily devastated. Zoella has been in love with Fardeen Malik, her best friend’s gorgeous older brother, since she was ten, but he’s always seen her as a ‘good girl’—not his type—and he can barely remember her name. Besides, he’s engaged to a gorgeous leggy socialite, someone from the same rarefied social strata as the imposing Malik family. In short, Zoella has no chance with him. Until a brutal accident leaves Fardeen scarred and disfigured, that is. Suddenly bereft of a fiancée, Fardeen is bitterly caustic, a shell of the man he used to be, a beast that has broken out of the fairy tale world he once lived in. And a twist of fate lands him his very own beauty—Zoella. This man, however, is a far cry from the Fardeen of her dreams. Stripped of her illusions, Zoella creates her own twist in the fairy tale, beating him at his own game. Order now and read this modern, unusual interpretation of the old-age fairy tale, in which Zeenat explores the themes of love, longing, and arranged marriages.
10.) Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed (Summary by Amazon)
Twenty-two-year-old, Zarish Munawwar, has everything in life she could ever ask for; an elite family, a high profile status, a bunch of good friends and a childhood sweetheart. Being childish, stubborn, imperious, extravagant and a bit impulsive at making important decisions pertaining to her life, is what perfectly describes her overall personality. She takes life easily and can get anything she desires. To her, life is a bed of roses. It is only when she meets, Ahmar Muraad, her mentor and finance professor at university, her perspective towards life completely changes. He looks quite young for his age as every girl at the university thinks he is attractive, seductive, intellectual and rather intimidating. This charming man is every girl's fantasy and Zarish also finds it hard to resist him. But is he fascinated by her? Little did Zarish know how one little interaction could bring about so many twists and turns in her life. After continuous unsuccessful attempts to avoid him, she feels that she is gradually falling for his charm. Ahmar, however, remains oblivious to her feelings. She is ready to abandon her childhood sweetheart for him. Eventually, there comes a time when only he matters to her and nobody else. Awestruck by the sudden revelation, she is dazed to find out that he feels exactly the same for her. Before their love blossoms, a slight tragedy falls into their lives. Zia Munawwar, her father, has some other plans for his daughter. Will Ahmar fight against the world for his lady love or step back? Do not miss this romantic tragedy as it will encapsulate you totally and will stay in your heart forever
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“Ten Interesting Afghani Novels”
1. Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means "star," suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman, Elaine, whose Islamic name is Nusrat, is also on her own. She waits out the war in Peshawar, Pakistan, teaching refugee children under the persimmon tree in her garden while her Afghan doctor husband runs a clinic in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.
Najmah's father had always assured her that the stars would take care of her, just as Nusrat's husband had promised that they would tell Nusrat where he was and that he was safe. As the two look to the skies for answers, their fates entwine. Najmah, seeking refuge and hoping to find her father and brother, begins the perilous journey through the mountains to cross the border into Pakistan. And Nusrat's persimmon-tree school awaits Najmah's arrival. Together, they both seek their way home.
Known for her award-winning fiction set in South Asia, Suzanne Fisher Staples revisits that part of the world in this beautifully written, heartrending novel. (goodreads.com)
2. Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy
Winner of the Christopher Medal and a "heart-wrenching" Al Roker's Book Club selection on the Today Show.
Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing. Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the Afghan poetry she taught her late mother. And the Americans come to her village, promising not just new opportunities and dangers, but surgery to fix her face. These changes could mean a whole new life for Zulaikha--but can she dare to hope they'll come true? (Amazon.com)
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them.
Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love - a stunning accomplishment. (goodreads.com)
4. Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen's dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. Atiq is a jailer who guards those who have been condemned to death; the darkness of prison and the wretchedness of his job have seeped into his soul. Atiq's wife, Musarrat, is suffering from an illness no doctor can cure. Yet, the lives of these four people are about to become inexplicably intertwined, through death and imprisonment to passion and extraordinary self-sacrifice.
The Swallows of Kabul is an astounding and elegiac novel of four people struggling to hold on to their humanity in a place where pleasure is a deadly sin and death has become routine. (goodreads.com)
5. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters.
But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-great grandmother, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way.
Crisscrossing in time, The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride, how will she survive? (Amazon.com)
6. Shooting Kabul By N.H. Senzai
In the summer of 2001, twelve-year-old Fadi's parents make the difficult decision to illegally leave Afghanistan and move the family to the United States. When their underground transport arrives at the rendezvous point, chaos ensues, and Fadi is left dragging his younger sister Mariam through the crush of people. But Mariam accidentally lets go of his hand and becomes lost in the crowd, just as Fadi is snatched up into the truck. With Taliban soldiers closing in, the truck speeds away, leaving Mariam behind.
Adjusting to life in the United States isn't easy for Fadi's family, and as the events of September 11th unfold the prospects of locating Mariam in a war torn Afghanistan seem slim. When a photography competition with a grand prize trip to India is announced, Fadi sees his chance to return to Afghanistan and find his sister. But can one photo really bring Mariam home?
Based in part on Ms. Senzai's husband's own experience fleeing his home in Soviet-controlled Afghanistan in the 1970's, Shooting Kabul is a powerful story of hope, love, and perseverance. (goodreads.org)
7. Green on Blue: A Novel by Elliot Ackerman
Aziz and his older brother Ali are coming of age in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan. They are poor, but inside their mud-walled home, the family has stability, love, and routine. One day a convoy of armed men arrives in their village and their world crumbles. The boys survive and make their way to a small city, where they gradually begin to piece together their lives. But when US forces invade the country, militants strike back. A bomb explodes in the market, and Ali is brutally injured.
To save his brother, Aziz must join the Special Lashkar, a US-funded militia. As he rises through the ranks, Aziz becomes mired in the dark underpinnings of his country’s war, witnessing clashes between rival Afghan groups—what US soldiers call “green on green” attacks—and those on US forces by Afghan soldiers, violence known as “green on blue.” Trapped in a conflict both savage and contrived, Aziz struggles to understand his place. Will he embrace the brutality of war or leave it behind, and risk placing his brother—and a young woman he has come to love—in jeopardy?
Green on Blue has broken new ground in the literature of our most recent wars, accomplishing an astonishing feat of empathy and imagination. Writing from the Afghan perspective, “Elliot Ackerman has done something brave as a writer and even braver as a soldier: He has touched, for real, the culture and soul of his enemy” (The New York Times Book Review). (barnesandnoble.com)
8. Caravans by James A. Michener
First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistan’s remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past. (barnesandnoble.com)
9. A Cup of Friendship: A Novel by Deborah Rodriguez
From the author of the “bighearted . . . inspiring” (Vogue) memoir Kabul Beauty School comes to a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there - thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship.
After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home - it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone. The thirty-eight-year-old American’s pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors. She’s especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure.
Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son - who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts. Into the café come to Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story; Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn “danger pay” as a consultant; and Candace, a wealthy and well-connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment.
When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the café and gives her home - but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy. As this group of men and women discover that there’s more to one another than meets the eye, they’ll form an unlikely friendship that will change not only their own lives but the lives of an entire country.
Brimming with Deborah Rodriguez’s remarkable gift for depicting the nuances of life in Kabul, and filled with vibrant characters that readers will truly care about, A Cup of Friendship is the best kind of fiction - full of heart yet smart and thought-provoking. (Amazon.com)
10. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles By Fabio Geda
What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?
In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey to the Taliban. His mother, fearing for his life, led him across the border. So began Enaiat’s remarkable and often publishing five-year ordeal—trekking across bitterly cold mountains, riding the suffocating false bottom of a truck, steering an inflatable raft in violent waters—through Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Greece, before he eventually sought political asylum in Italy, all before he turned fifteen years old.
Here Fabio Geda delivers the moving true story of Enaiat’s extraordinary will to survive and of the accidental brotherhood he found with the boys he met along the way. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiat’s engaging voice and humor, in what is a truly epic story of hope and survival, for readers of all ages. (barnesandnoble.com)
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OKay but why is Najmah's character design that most acceptable design of any character from their country? Tws is lowkey evolving with this event (but they still have a long way to go)
It's because its the most normal outfit but like its GOOD. I know the others are wearing "traditional" outfits so that's why she looks the most acceptable and not a street performer like her brother cough
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