tahirshah-human-stew.blogspot.com
HUMAN STEW
Fifty foot of Calcutta's pavement has more life on it than entire cities elsewhere. The film (proposed one hour on Super-16 and DV) will involve the process of Tahir selecting a stretch of pavement on which to live, and learning the ropes from others who already live there. We see it as very important that the film isn't just a stunt, but is more dynamic: that it draws the audience into a world which is usually hidden and misunderstood. Posted by Mangorains at 10:56 AM.
tahirshah-inprogress-books.blogspot.com
IN PROGRESS, BOOKS
IN PROGRESS, BOOKS.
tahirshah-inprogress-films.blogspot.com
IN PROGRESS, FILMS
IN PROGRESS, FILMS.
tahirshah-interview2.blogspot.com
Tahir Shah Interview 2
Tahir Shah Interview 2. Tahir Shah Interview 2. Several authors have proclaimed that travel writing is a dead genre,. That the world has become one giant uniform suburb and there is. Nothing new to be discovered. What is or should be, in your view, the. Role of a travel writer today? The role of the travel writer is to make people think, to hone their senses. It’s not to impress them with name dropping and with great journeys without any purpose at all. No of course they don’t. The "West" more constraine...
tahirshah-kosovo.blogspot.com
Kosovo Kids
Kosovo Kids was a special project undertaken by German reportage photographer Erol Gurian and myself in February 2000. The purpose of the project was to document in a small way the situation following the arrival of the KFOR peace-keeping force. We were fascinated by the extraordinary resilience of the children of the region, and wanted to use them as a mouthpiece for the situation. War changes everyone it touches. It brings uncertainty, chaos, and strips children of their innocence. When the children we...
tahirshah-leadership.blogspot.com
LEADERSHIP TALKS
Boosting and Maintaining Motivation. Striving Towards the Goal. Seeing with Fresh Eyes. In additional to the challenges of the hardest expeditions imaginable, Tahir Shah has endured other extraordinary hardships. These include sixteen days in the solitary confinement of a Pakistani torture jail, after being arrested with his film crew in the summer of 2005, while travelling to Afghanistan. Shah on Leadership and Exploration:. The second quality I search for is the ability to solve problems. Some peop...
tahirshah-literary-morocco.blogspot.com
Literary Morocco
I turned left at a shop selling small silver boxes, and then right at a silk merchant’s stall, and found myself at an ancient wooden door. Standing in its cool shadow, I knocked once, then again. A moment later the door was swinging inwards, and I was waved in by a figure in cream-coloured robes. As he led the way upstairs, he said that the gathering was about to begin. As well as the literary salons, Marrakech is home to the wonderful Café du Livre, a relaxed blend of bookshop and restaurant patronised ...
tahirshah-middle-east.blogspot.com
The Middle East Bedside Book
The Middle East Bedside Book. The Middle East Bedside Book. A cornucopia of lore, stories, proverbs, etiquette, and fascinating information about the region, The Middle East Bedside Book is an indispensable handbook for tourists and businessmen, Arabists and armchair-travellers alike. Posted by Mangorains at 7:02 AM.
tahirshah-mines-notes.blogspot.com
In Search of King Solomon's Mines,Tahir's Notes
In Search of King Solomon's Mines,Tahir's Notes. It was my friend Wilfred Thesiger who first suggested I go to Ethiopia, the country of his birth. He said I would find a society that had changed little in the way of its traditions in millennia. He was right. From the first moment I spent in that magical land, I was transfixed by the extraordinay beauty, and by the grace of the people. Posted by Mangorains at 5:02 AM.
