Fauzia minallah biography
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Publishing Perspectives
In one of her books, Fauzia Minallah says, ‘the sky is filled with so much light that the people are able to see their own mistakes.’ Her ‘Scarf of Peace’ is leading to a book of that title.
Fauzia Minallah. Image: Roger Tagholm
By Roger Tagholm | @RogerTagholm
For Children ‘Who Face Persecution and Discrimination’
The 110-foot-long cloth mural features a “bird of light” called Amai. It’s the work of Pakistani children’s author and illustrator Fauzia Minallah, who is recording the reactions of children for a new book provisionally entitled The Scarf of Peace.
The bird, present in some form in each panel of the scarf, takes children on adventures around the world and spreads a message of love, peace and tolerance.
Minallah says she now has seven children’s picture books and two coffee table books for young adults. She lists among her publishers the National Book Trust of India and Oxford University Press in Pakistan.
Her titles produced by OUP Pakistan include:
Probably her best-known title is Sadako’s Prayer, which she illustrated for its 2006 publication by ANT-Hiroshima, a UNESCO non-governmental agency that works operates in countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, N
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Fauzia Minallah
Fauzia Minallah
How do bolster approach family tree with your messages?
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Some films by Filmmaker or Pixar are perplexing. But hateful foreign cartoons are violent.
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Books for children and young adults > Glimpses into Islamabad's Soul
Book Review by Fiona Torrens-Spence
Author: Fauzia Minallah
In the past travel writers have been dismissive of Islamabad, passing it off as ‘sterile’ and ‘dull’; somewhere to be got through before visiting the real Pakistan. And the local joke ‘Islamabad, twenty minutes from Pakistan’ also belittles the country’s capital city by implying it is essentially foreign to the rest of Pakistan; a soulless, high rise city full of diplomats and other feather bedded foreigners.
As Fauzia Minallah writes, Islamabad and its surrounding villages have both a soul and an immensely long and fascinating story. It is sometimes hard to locate historic sites and harder still to find information about them so I wish that I had been able to read Fauzia Minallah’s book before living in Islamabad as I know I have seen many sites around Islamabad, such as the prehistoric shelter which can be seen from the Kashmir Highway, and entirely missed the story behind them.
I would recommend any visitor to Islamabad to invest in a copy of her book, particularly if they will be living in Islamabad for long enough to get out and about and explore. The book has the best map of Islamabad and surrounding areas which I have yet seen.