- Tahir Aslam Gora
Tahir Aslam Gora (born 1963) is a
Pakistan i editor,publisher , translator (English toUrdu ), and writer offiction andnon-fiction . He was born inKasur City , Punjab,Pakistan in 1963 and studied at theAllama Iqbal Medical College ,Lahore . Gora used to be the publisher and editor of the weekly Urdu languagenewspaper WATAN from 2000 to 2003 inToronto ,Canada . There, he also started theradio program, "Watan Radio", on 770AM in 2001. He is a vocal supporter of the right tofreedom of expression , particularly amongMuslim communities. His organization,Independent Muslim Media Network (IMMN), works to protect the rights tofreedom of expression for writers likeSalman Rushdie ,Taslima Nasreen , andIrshad Manji . Moreover, he is also working on producing television dramas relating to freedom of expression issues among Muslim communities. Among his recent literary works, Gora is responsible for the Urdu translation of Irshad Manji’s book “The Trouble with Islam”. He is also involved in the translation of the writings ofDaniel Pipes andSamia Labidi into the Urdu language. As of 2005, he is working on a new novel and a new book on Islamic fundamentalism.In
Pakistan , Gora foundedGora Publishers in 1987, which published more than 100 works of literature and books on the social sciences. He has also served as editor-in-chief of the socio-political weekly journal,Hafta , and the literary journalRujhanaat . He was active in several literary and cultural organizations in Pakistan and was a noted critic ofreligious intolerance in that country. He fled to Canada in the spring of 1999 following threats to his life. He is a member of the Exile Writers panel ofInternational PEN , Canada and is on the Exile Journalist panel ofCanadian Journalists for Free Expression .He has published three collections of short stories, one novel, two collections of poems, two anthologies and one translation. Some of his work has been translated into Russian, Uzbek and English.
elected publications
*Safar Akher Safar Hey (short stories, Urdu), Pakistan, Maktaba Tamseel, 1985.
*Mohlat (novel, Urdu). Pakistan, Tarteeb Publishers, 1993
*Yeh Udassi Ki Baat Nahein (poems, Urdu). Pakistan, Tarteeb Publishers, 1993.
*Trevogi Nadegi (novel, Russian translation). Uzbekistan, Asian Publishers, 1997.
*This is not a Matter of Sorrow (poems, English translation). Pakistan, Tarteeb Publishers, 1997.External links
* [http://www.newislam.org New Islam Foundation]
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