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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Apr 22

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 · Apr 16

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

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#cities #writing

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The City as a Character - LLF 2025

YouTube video by LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL “LLF”

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Apr 16

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 · Apr 4

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

Reposted by Osama Siddique

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · Mar 15

"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

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Mar 15

The Cantos of Hell

Reading Dante Alighieri’s Inferno in the dead of the night

#Dante #thedivinecomedy #Reading #classics #poetry #italianliterature #Lahore #nightreading #SpringBreak

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Mar 9

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Mar 9

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 · Mar 8

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 · Feb 19

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

Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 17

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

Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 17

‎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

Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 15

The full interview with Tariq Ali sb at launch of his memoirs at #FaizFestival2025

youtu.be/Pu1GoaQGMgs?...

#Lahore, #pakistan #progressivepolitics, #imperialism, #capitalism, #Palestine #literature, #leftpolitics, #dictators #liberalpolitics #democracy, #fiction, #Islamophobia

Tariq Ali interviewed by Dr. Osama Siddique at launch of You Can’t Please All at Faiz Festival 2025

YouTube video by Osama Siddique

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 14

A Valentine’s 💘 Day special. A love story from a different era and during a very difficult time.

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

YouTube video by Osama Siddique

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 8

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.
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#frenchnovel #frenchfiction

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

YouTube video by Osama Siddique

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 8

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 · Feb 8

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 · Feb 6

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

Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 4

A spring afternoon and the magic tree

#Lahore #spring #Lahorespring

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 3

Or from me if interested in a signed copy. Love the stunning new cover.

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#analienjustice

Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 3

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 · Feb 3

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

Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 3

#snuffingoutthemoon
#ghuroobeshehrkawaqt

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The cost of lost integrity in Osama Siddique’s ‘Ghuroob-e-Shehr Ka Waqt’ and ‘Snuffing Out the Moon’

These novels shift seamlessly between historical fiction, speculative narrative, and intimate human drama, transcending conventional genres.

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Osama Siddique @osamasiddique.bsky.social · Feb 3

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 · Feb 3

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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