Song of Gulzarina - Mehmood, Tariq
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A suicide bombing is being planned in Manchester, UK. Behind it lie Saleem Khan's vivid memories - some full of regret and yearning, others humorous and yet others overshadowed by the surreal brutality of the war. In the 60s, he leaves his lover, his job as a teacher and his home in the rural Pakistan and travels to Bradford, a town seething with racism where Asians are 'Pakis' and their labour is cheap. He finds a job working in a mill on an all-Asian night-shift, becomes an active trade unionist and when the mills close down, he drives a taxi. He gives up his religion and eventually falls in…mehr

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A suicide bombing is being planned in Manchester, UK. Behind it lie Saleem Khan's vivid memories - some full of regret and yearning, others humorous and yet others overshadowed by the surreal brutality of the war. In the 60s, he leaves his lover, his job as a teacher and his home in the rural Pakistan and travels to Bradford, a town seething with racism where Asians are 'Pakis' and their labour is cheap. He finds a job working in a mill on an all-Asian night-shift, becomes an active trade unionist and when the mills close down, he drives a taxi. He gives up his religion and eventually falls in love with an English woman. But in the 1980s Pakistan draws him back. Now regarded as a smart 'abroadi', he gets involved as the English-speaking partner in his cousin's transport business. When a truck driver he knows, does not return to base, he sets out to find him and unwittingly gets drawn across the border and into the killing fields of Afghanistan. Here, among Russian soldiers, Saudi Arabian Sheikhs, American Pirs, prostitutes and the holy warriors of the Mujahadeen, who take their orders and weapons from the United States, he meets Gulzarina, the woman whose life and experiences in a war without end allow him to finally make sense of his own.
Autorenporträt
Tariq Mehmood is a writer and filmmaker. He has authored several novels, including Hand on the Sun (Penguin 1983/Daraja Press 2024), which he wrote awaiting trial as part of the Bradford 12 - a group of young men arrested for organizing armed self-defense to protect their community in Bradford, northern England. Tariq was a leading defendant in the case, which carried the potential of life imprisonment. After a national and interna- tional campaign, all defendants were acquitted. The case of the Bradford 12 established the legal right of a community under threat to organize its own self-defense, including armed resistance. Tariq is currently directing a feature-length documentary about this landmark case, which will be accompanied by a book. He is also the co director of the award-winning film Injustice, which exposed the scandal of police impunity in custodial deaths in the UK. Tariq teaches at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.