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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How serendipitous! Merely a few moments after I asked my gardener to get some cornflowers for the garden I came across this page as I went back to my Turgenev. #turgenev #summer #flowers #gardens #cornflower #russianliterature #novels #reading #asportsmansnotebook #gardening #lahore

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Mohsin Hamid, bestselling author of Exit West among other titles; and Osama Siddique, author of Snuffing Out the Moon Chair: Teresa Nicolau, Portuguese fiction writer and TV editor specializing in art and culture 2/2 #cities #writing Here is the link youtu.be/W-gN49frHWc?...

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The City as a Character - LLF 2025

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The City as a Character LLF 2025 Writers narrate their experiences of immersing in key metropolises: #Berlin, #Athens and #Lahore. David Wagner, writer of Lives and Four Apples among other works; Sofka Zinovieff, fiction writer and host of the podcast Athens Unpacked; 1/2

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Bear in mind also, ye wild critics, ye scrapers-up of words harpies who mangle the intentions & inventions of every one, that as children do we only laugh, & as we travel onward laughter sinks down & dies out, like the light of the oil-lit lamp. Honoré de Balzac - Droll Stories

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 15/03/2025

"Tsundoku" (積ん読) – The fine art of hoarding more books than you could ever read, while maintaining the delusion that, "One day, I’ll get to them." 📚✨ #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime #writingcommunity #amreading

Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

How literature transports us. A spring day dedicated to a book set in the coldest and direst of winters and about the human spirit to withstand the worst of brutalities. #russianliterature #classics #solzhenitsyn #gulags #lahore #literature #spring #reading.

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. — A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Looking forward to my two sessions in the 13th edition of LLF The City as a Character Friday, Feb 21, 2025. 5.45 to 6.45 pm. Hall 1 Viewing Home from Afar Sunday, Feb 23, 2025. 3.00 to 3.55 pm. Hall 3 #llf2025 #LLF #LahoreLiteraryFestival

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

ایک نئی نسل کے قاری کا میرے دونوں ناولوں پہ تبصرہ پڑھ کر خوشی ہوی #غروبِ_شہر_کا_وقت #چاند_کو_گل_کریں_تو_ہم_جانیں

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

‎I spoke about my novel Ghuroob e Shehr Ka Waqt at Al-Mawrid at their kind invite. A well run research institute adding value to society in various important ways and good to engage with a keen and curious audience. ‎⁦‪#ghuroobeshehrkawaqt‬⁩ ⁧‫#غروب_شہر_کا_وقت‬⁩

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A Valentine’s 💘 Day special. A love story from a different era and during a very difficult time. youtu.be/wP2ImecrpSg?...

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The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono Kitab Dost کتاب دوست - Book Review No 25. (Feb 8, 2025)

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

self-preservation becomes the utmost priority. Yet the Italian noble Angelo Pardi and the Frenchwoman Pauline de Theus discover that even in such sordid times honour, finer feelings, selflessness & nobility can survive. 3/3 youtu.be/wP2ImecrpSg?... #frenchnovel #frenchfiction

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The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono Kitab Dost کتاب دوست - Book Review No 25. (Feb 8, 2025)

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

epidemic. Set in Provence it raises poignant questions about heroism, virtue & unselfishness at a time when all order is disrupted & anarchy reigns supreme. Fear of death, superstition & the very ruthlessness of the disease drive many to lunacy and acts of depravity, & 2/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The Horseman on the Roof is a memorable romantic adventure in the best tradition of the French novel. Its most striking feature are beautiful descriptive passages & the sense of horror & the macabre it brilliantly conveys as it brings to life the ravages of the 1832 cholera 1/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I received the first stash of the freshly printed Pakistani edition of Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice and it looks gorgeous. Here are the first ten signed copies ready to be couriered tomorrow to those who had ordered in advance and asked them to be inscribed #AnAlienJustice

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Or from me if interested in a signed copy. Love the stunning new cover. 2/2 #analienjustice

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

And it’s been published. The new and updated Pakistani edition of Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: A Alien Justice. Will be available at Lahore International Book Fair starting on February 5th and in major bookshops soon. And can be ordered directly from Book Corner. 1/2

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Folks I shall be at the Lahore International Book Fair on Thursday February 6 from 5-7 pm for sure & may be a bit earlier & later as well. Hope to see you there. All my books including the latest ed of An Alien Justice will be available at Book Corner stall. Hope to see you there

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

also the best comprehensive critical comparison of my two works that explores aspirations, themes, styles and structural aspects common to both while focusing also on their individual character. Much obliged and of course even more inspired to keep writing. 2/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I am quite overwhelmed by this deeply reflective and incisively thoughtful assessment of my novels Snuffing Out the Moon and Ghuroob e Shehr Ka Waqt by Nikhil Kumar sahib that has appeared in the prominent independent Indian digital publication Scroll. This is the first and 1/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

of very important perceptions, analyses, experiences & insights. This is a brief vlog about the book. A detailed interview with him shall be shown at FaizFestival2025. youtu.be/yPHo1on3Dgk?... #leftpolitics #progressivepolitics #memoirs #globalpolitics #liberty #politics 3/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

self-reliance all over the world, an ideologue, thinker & activist associated with politics of the left, & a prolific writer & film-maker who has produced extensive works in multiple genres. His #memoirs spanning the last half a century therefore provide us with a 2/3 wide range 2/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

For many years Tariq Ali has been one of Pakistan’s few globally recognised public intellectuals, an articulate & resounding voice against the banes of #imperialism, #capitalism, #authoritarianism, #apartheid & #Zionism, a champion for peoples’ movements for liberty & 1/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Looking forward to this year’s Faiz Festival. It will have a lot to offer. Do join us. #faizfestival2025

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Very happy to share that I’ve accepted an offer by the Paris based publisher ÉDITIONS BANYAN to publish my novel #GhuroobeShehrKaWaqt in French. It will be translated by Rosine-Alice Vuille who has translated works leading contemporary Urdu writers Khalid Javed & Rehman Abbas.

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Wonderful to have a detailed conversation with #TariqAli sahib yesterday where we spoke about his recently released memoirs #YouCan’tPleaseAll & its multifarious themes. This conversation will be shown at the forthcoming #FaizFestival2025 where the book will be launched.

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hard to get clearer views with so much light pollution in the cities but a very bright Venus and fairly bright Mars and Jupiter visible in the Lahore night sky #planetaryalignment

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

نوبل انعام یافتہ ناول نگار اورھان پاموک کے مشہور ناول دی میوزیم آف انونسنس پہ میرا تجزیہ اور استنبول میں واقع اس عجائب گھر کا تصویری سفرنامہ۔یہ ناول ایک لازوال عشق کی کہانی بھی ہے اور ایک عظیم شہر سے محبت کی کہانی بھی۔ دیکھ اور سن کے بتائیے کیسا لگا۔ youtu.be/Jwrq_eqvhiU?... #kitabdost #osamareads

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The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Kitab Dost کتاب دوست - Book Review No 23. (Jan 23, 2025)

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

for & commemorating Fusun. I visited The Museum of Innocence on a rainy December day and it further deepened my appreciation for the depth of Kemal’s loss and yet also his unusual state of happiness. 3/4 #turkey #turkishliterature #turkishnovel #orhanpamuk #istanbul

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Set in the Istanbul of 70s & 80s its is also an ode to that transforming city of cities as one fateful day Kemal Bey falls for Fusun & never recovers. Alongside their story develops also a museum that stores artifacts associated with Fusun and a life spent pursuing, pining 2/4

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Museum of Innocence is an ode to obsessive, unrelenting, passionate love - except none of these words quite convey its intensity or perseverance. What best describes such love is the concept & term Ishaq عشق that we find in classical Persian, Urdu, Hindi & Punjabi poetry. 1/4

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I’m glad Cambridge University Press extended the permission & that my Pakistani publisher Book Corner is publishing it. Pls book in advance if you are interested. The book will also be present, as will I, at the forthcoming Lahore Book Fair & Faiz Festival #AnAlienJustice 3/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

edition this book has won two prizes & has thankfully found a wide & appreciative readership amongst students, the legal community, social scientists & general readers. An affordable Pakistani edition was long overdue & I have been asked by several students to arrange for one 2/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

‏Very happy to share that my book Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice now coming out in a lovely Pakistani edition with a new, updated introduction. Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 in UK & US editions and in 2014 in an Indian 1/3

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Always wonderful to come across a discerning and appreciative new reader who has connected with your work. A lovely review. #chandkogulkarentohumjanen #چاند_کو_گُل_کریں_تو_ہم_جانیں Image credit @zunairsaeed_

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

people, & also if you feel that more of the best of the global ought to be accessible in local languages while the best of the local needs to be showcased to the world. Here’s a link to my book vlogs on YouTube. youtube.com/@osamasiddiq... #kitabdost #osamareads #literature 2/2

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Started on a whim some months ago & happy to say that I have by now done 21 #bookvlogs in #Urdu on a variety of local & global, non-fiction & fiction books. Do listen, subscribe, & share if you feel that we should be talking much more about ideas & books esp with younger 1/2

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Believe it or not but the very first #ElifShafak that I’m reading. I was dissuaded & not interested earlier for multiple reasons. Only just started but this one seems very much up my alley - multiple historical periods, ancient history, a common thread & elegant prose. Let’s see.

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The way it was kneecapped which resulted in those routes being taken away was loathsome and deserves accountability. Of course should we decide to run it well it can fly high again. And yes. Love that uniform! 2/2 #PIA

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Naysayers and cynics can’t be cured but I believe that when you decide to live somewhere you stay hopeful, loyal, grateful and appreciative. I for one am very glad that PIA flying on European routes. 1/2

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

بکر پرائز جیتنے والے اس ناول کی کہانی ہر اس جگہ کی کہانی ہے جہاں یہ ہی صورتِ حال ہے۔ 2/2 #BookerPrize2023 #prophetsong youtu.be/SvtIEGJtPEs?...

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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch Kitab Dost کتاب دوست - Book Review No 22. (Jan 03, 2025)

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

ایک ملک ہے جس میں شہری حقوق سلب ہو چکے ہیں، لوگ لاپتہ ہو جاتے ہیں اور ان کو کوئی خبر نہیں آتی، عدلیہ آزاد نہیں ہے، ایمرجنسی قانون کا نفاذ ہے اور پولیس اور خفیہ ادارے کے پاس غیر معمولی طاقت ہے۔ اور یہ ملک ہے ریپبلک آف آئرلینڈ۔مستقبل قریب کا ڈسٹوپیا۔ 1/2

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

politics in Europe providing the fuel. Lynch’s book also showcases the plight & creates understanding & empathy for refugees. And like all good literature provides perspective as well as a ray of hope in all the gloom. 3/4 #ProphetSong #PaulLynch #bookerprize #bookerprize2023

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