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Pakistan Working Group: Next meeting "Jihad? Terrorism in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Germany", 27th January 2012
Date: 27th January 2012
Time: 4.15 p.m. (16.15 Uhr)
Location: SAI, room 316

We cordially invite everybody to readings from Amtul Manan Tahir’s novel Yah Jihād in Urdu and English, followed by a presentation by Shamsul Haq on his experiences in Pakistan and Afghanistan with a particular focus on the role of education in eradicating the roots of terrorism.
Amtul Manan Tahir has been teaching Urdu at the South Asia Institute since 1989. She has published several Urdu short stories and translations. Yah Jihād is her first novel.
Shamsul Haq was born near Lahore and came to Germany at the age of 15. He works as a free-lance journalist for several German and international media.

Pakistan Working Group
Posted on 23 Jan 2012
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