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Ismail Merchant by Zia Jaffrey: He was going into banking, but made the world his business

The story of what happened when my mother, Madhur Jaffrey, and my father, Saeed, struggling actors in New York in the 1950s, first met Ismail...
Interview, 05/01/02 by Zia Jaffrey · More from publication
THE FARMING OF BONES.(Review) (book reviews)

THE FARMING OF BONES. By Edwidge Danticat. Soho, 312 pp. $23. With Hurricane Georges devastating the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and the...
Nation, The, 11/16/98 by JAFFREY, ZIA · More from publication
Desmond Tutu - chair of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Interview - Cover Story

Tutu explains that the goal of the commission is 'ubuntu,' or striving for harmony for the community and not revenge. The most surprising...
Progressive, The, 02/01/98 by Zia Jaffrey · More from publication
Wole Soyinka: 'this regime just does not believe in innocence.' - Nigeria author/exile - Interview

The military government of General Sani Abacha has charged Wole Soynika, winner of 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, with treason. Soyinka has been...
Progressive, The, 08/01/97 by Zia Jaffrey · More from publication
An Echo of Heaven. (book reviews)

By Kenzaburo Oe. Translated by Margaret Mitsutani. Kodansha. 204 pp. $25. Last year, when several Nobel laureates gathered in Atlanta for...
Nation, The, 09/30/96 by Jaffrey, Zia · More from publication
Cambridge. (book reviews)

CAMBRIDGE. By Caryl Phillips. Knopf. 184 pp. 19. When one reads the travel writing of the English men and women who voyaged by sea to the...
Nation, The, 03/23/92 by Jaffrey, Zia · More from publication