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October 17, 2006
Mukhtar Mai and President Musharraf's Memoirs
A hero can come from the unlikeliest of places and Mukhtar Mai is one such hero. Already awed by her courage, watching her accept the Glamour 2005 Woman of the Year Award, I was doubly awed at her humility and simplicity. Just as awe inspiring are Muktar Mai's family who suppored rather than stifled her, as well as all the people, men, women, Pakistani, non-Pakistani, who've worked to make sure her story is told and heard.
Mukhtar Mai's 'In the Name of Honor: A Memoir', published in twenty languages, is finally going to be available in the US on October 31st (halloween, but no symbolism shall be read therein). Mukhtar Mai's memoir as well as Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf's recent memoir 'In the Line of Fire' have the same US publisher so I suppose comparisons between promotion and sales etc... will be made. But both memoirs are vastly different. President Musharraf's is a political memoir while Mukhtar Mai's a memoir of politics. President Musharraf's is about running Pakistan and Mukhtar Mai''s about living in it. Perhaps they should be read together since the President has stipulated rape is a means by which women like Mukhtar Mai are afforded an opportunity to immigrate.
ps. does any one know if an Urdu translation is in the works?
Posted by Soniah Kamal at October 17, 2006 10:21 AM
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