Profile: A Dubai-based writer & op-ed contribtuor for The News. He can be reached at aijaz.syed@hotmail.com
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Are the Americans really that dumb? I mean after spending 11 years in the world’s most dangerous battlefield and dealing with the fiercely proud and famously hot blooded Afghans you have to be s...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 02 28, 2012 | 15 Comments
The past is never dead, wrote William Faulkner, in fact it’s not even past. The past lives on and smoulders in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat. Ten years after the worst communal massacre in the 21st cent...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 02 20, 2012 | 56 Comments
This is perhaps what the expression 'setting the cat among the pigeons' means. Just when Israel was putting up that little show, going around the world crying about the way Iran was ta...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 02 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
Can you really call them games, the kind my son loves to play all the time? And despite being a pacifist by nature and sweet as an angel, he seems to relish playing those violent video games on his So...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 02 14, 2012 | 4 Comments
When the history of these interesting times is written, the people of Syria will perhaps take their place right at the top. Of course, the courage and leadership demonstrated by the...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 02 8, 2012 | 3 Comments
They say fact is stranger than fiction. Things in real life are sometimes so weird that they defy the absurdity of the reel world. The more you read of the tragedy of Dr Khalil Chishty, the more impla...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 01 31, 2012 | 3 Comments
This is springtime in the Middle East once again. And I haven’t seen such glorious, reinvigorating weather during my nearly decade of living in the region. This year appears to be really special...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 01 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Bicycles, bicycles, and more bicycles. That’s the first thing you notice after landing in Copenhagen. Driving from the airport into the city, one is amazed at the sheer number of bicycles ...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 01 25, 2012 | 20 Comments
When I first heard of Salman Rushdie I was at university. The Satanic Verses had set off a perfect storm in India and around the world. The book was banned in India following fiery protests by Muslims...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 01 16, 2012 | 8 Comments
The more things change for India’s Muslims, the more they remain the same. Come elections and political parties invent ever new ways of wooing, using and exploiting them to reap their periodic harve...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 12 19, 2011 | No Comments
Thanks to the blessings of Internet, distances of thousands of miles have simply vanished. Time and space do not seem to matter anymore. I carry my office around in my BlackBerry, communicating all...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 12 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
Most of the movies Dev Anand is remembered for today ,had been made before I was born. Yet each one of them remains a personal favourite despite the fact that nearly all of them were in black and whit...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 12 6, 2011 | 10 Comments
There aren’t many public libraries in Dubai. Well, there are some, run by the Dubai government, but they aren’t most popular with the residents. You don’t see a fraction of the crowd that you co...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 11 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
What’s it about Sharjah that turned a regulation cricket match into an endless carnival? This Sunday, when Shahid Afridi, celebrating his haul of five wickets and a sensational win over Sri Lanka de...
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