Abbas Zaidi – Sangat Book Review

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Education— GC Lahore, University of Strathclyde, University of Brunei
Currently—Brunei

Bibliography

Two and a half words and other stories (2011)

Abbas Zaidi is a Pakistani writer and journalist based in Brunei Darussalam where he teaches English at Sultan Saiful Rijal Technical College. He is the author of Two and a half words and other stories, published by Classic Books, Lahore.

Abbas Zaidi did his MA in English literature from Government College, Lahore, an MLitt in linguistics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and a Ph.D. in sociolinguistics from the University of Brunei.

His short stories have appeared, inter alia, in New York Press, Exquisite Corpse, New Partisan, Eclectica, Salt River Review, Best of GOWANUS, and The Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies. He is a Review Editor for The Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, and Asian Editor of GOWANUS. He has recently completed a PhD in socioligistics.

He lives in Brunei Darussalam with his wife and three lovely kids. He is working on his first novel which will deal with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Two and a half words and other stories
Abbas Zaidi
The title of the recent book by Ruth Vanita, Gender, Sex and the City, evokes the cult American television series Sex and the City, thereby revealing some of its thematic preoccupations.

Postcolonial Insanity
Abbas Zaidi
I remember my days as a political prisoner in Karachi Central Jail in 1981. A prison warden,bringing me my food, said she was frightened. She had heard that a Shia family had moved into the lane of the house where she lived. “You know Shias eat children,” she said. “I lock my child up all day so that Shias can‟t kidnap, kill, and eat my child.” She has heard it from the imam at her local mosque. Benazir Bhutto

Birth—Where—Raised in— Education— GC Lahore, University of Strathclyde, University of BruneiCurrently—Brunei

Bibliography

Two and a half words and other stories (2011)

Birth—
Where—
Raised in—
Education— GC Lahore, University of Strathclyde, University of Brunei
Currently—Brunei