http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/kamila_shamsie en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/book-life-skin-lion-writer http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/book-life-skin-lion-writer Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:12:09 GMT Kamila Shamsie The book that changed my life

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2008/01/urgent-situation-ground-gore http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2008/01/urgent-situation-ground-gore Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT Kamila Shamsie The truth was, the civil war seemed a million miles away and the most urgent situation "on the ground" was Gore Vidal's lost luggage

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2007/04/female-students-women-pakistan http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2007/04/female-students-women-pakistan Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT Kamila Shamsie Disparaging terms for burqa-clad women used to be a joke - but not after female students began a campaign of kidnap, intimidation and issuing fatwas.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200607100055 http://www.newstatesman.com/200607100055 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT Kamila Shamsie The Attack Yasmina Khadra William Heinemann, 272pp, £10.99 ISBN 043401558X

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210041 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT Kamila Shamsie Desperately Seeking Paradise: journeys of a sceptical Muslim Ziauddin Sardar Granta Books, 354pp, £16.99 ISBN 1862076502

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200208120020 http://www.newstatesman.com/200208120020 Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT Kamila Shamsie Kamila Shamsie on the British appetite for a taste of inauthentic India

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200206030018 http://www.newstatesman.com/200206030018 Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:00:00 GMT Kamila Shamsie India talks of terrorism, and the world listens. But the Kashmiris have tens of thousands dead, and the world is deaf to their plight. By Kamila Shamsie

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